...usually walk in little coats some two foot long," adds, " A bigger kind there is of them, called with us Hobgoblins and Robin Goodfellows, that would, in those...milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work." Although these Robin Goodfellows were sometimes spoken of as a class of fairies, as evidence the quotation...

...Goodfellows are somewhat larger and more robust. They are kindly and malicious by turns. They " would grind corn for a mess of milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work." In Norway and Iceland they are often seen working. Tholosanus says that in his day they were still...

...do usually walk in little coats, some two feet long. A bigger kind there is of them called with us hobgoblins and Robin Goodfellows, that would in those...grind corn for a mess of milk, cut wood, or do any matter of drudgery work." 1 And Sir Thomas Browne even goes so far as declaring it a riddle to him...

...usually walk in little coats, some two foot long,' says : ' A bigger kind there is of them called with us Hobgoblins and Robin Goodfellows, that would, in those...milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work.' " And that the leaders should be the largest is no extraordinary effort of imagination. In Crofton...

...do usually walk in little coats some two foot long. A bigger kind there is of them, called with us Hobgoblins and Robin Goodfellows, that would in those...milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work. . . So likewise those . . . that walk about midnight on great heaths and desert places, which . . ....

...some two foot long. A bigger kind there is of them, called with us Hobgoblins and Robin Good/Mows, that would in those superstitious times grind corn...milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work. . . So likewise those . . . that walk about midnight on great heaths and desert places, which . . ....

...do usually walk in little coats, some two feet long. A bigger kind there is of them called with us hobgoblins, and Robin Goodfellows, that would in those...milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work. They would mend old irons in those Aeolian isles of Lipari, in former ages, and have been often seen...

...of them, called with us hobgoblins and Robin Goodfellows, that would, in superstitious times grinde corn for a mess of milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work." In the fairy's address to Robin Goodfellow in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," we saw his reduced, servant...

...than these German kobolds is that called with us Robin Goodf ellows, that would in those superstitous times grind corn for a mess of milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work. . . . These have several names . . . but we commonly call them Pucks. — Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy,...