kobold

kobold englanniksi

1. An ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite.

2. 1904, Lang|Andrew Lang (collector), author and translator not identified, ''Mermaid and the Boy|The Mermaid and the Boy'', ''Andrew Lang's Fairy BooksBrown Fairy Book (1904)|The Brown Fairy Book'', page 176,

At this point a cock crew, and the youth jumped up hastily saying : 'Of course I shall ride with the king to the war, and if I do not return, take your violin every evening to the seashore and play on it, so that the very sea-kobolds who live at the bottom of the ocean may hear it and come to you.'

3. {{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Robert Grant Haliburton|title=The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas: Collected Papers on the Curious Anthropology of Robert Grant Haliburton|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ARzyQ49okzsC&pg=PA75&dq=%22kobold%22%7C%22kobolds%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qj2VU-nSDMikkwX5oIC4AQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22kobold%22%7C%22kobolds%22&f=false|page=75

4. A mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household.

5. (ante), MacDonald|George MacDonald, ''Shadows (MacDonald)|The Shadows'', 2000 1980, ''The Golden Key and Other Stories'', page 96,

The king had seen all kinds of gnomes, goblins, and kobolds at his coronation;(..).

6. {{quote-text|en|year=1977|author=James Buchanan Given|title=Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=peUfbR1lkZgC&pg=PA138&dq=%22kobold%22%7C%22kobolds%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qj2VU-nSDMikkwX5oIC4AQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22kobold%22%7C%22kobolds%22&f=false|page=138|year_published=2007

7. {{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=William Wirt Sikes; Varla Ventura|title=The Occult Powers of Goats and Other Welsh Tales of Goblins, Fairies, Gnomes, and Elves|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=iTV1yFbe09gC&pg=PT30&dq=%22kobold%22%7C%22kobolds%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Z1WVU-6HNIGikgXopoG4Aw&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22kobold%22%7C%22kobolds%22&f=false|page=unnumbered

8. One of a diminutive and usually malevolent race of beings, often with a reptilian or dog-like appearance.

9. {{quote-book|en|year=2005|author=Scott Elliot Hicks|title=The Shattering Light of Stars|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=66revmJL5TMC&pg=PA62&dq=%22kobold%22%7C%22kobolds%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qj2VU-nSDMikkwX5oIC4AQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22kobold%22%7C%22kobolds%22&f=false|page=62

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11. 1789, Justus Christiaan Hennings (= Justus Christian Hennings), ''Onzydige en beproefde gedagten, over de leer aangaande geesten en geesten-zieners'', vol. 3, tr. from German, Arend Fokke Simonszoon (publ.), page 324.

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12. {{quote-book|nl|year=1873|author=R. R. Rijkens|title=De reiziger. Aardrijkskundige beschrijvingen en schilderingen. Leesboek voor de hoogste klasse der lagereschool|publisher=J. B. Wolters|edition=3rd revised|page=94

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