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kobold KO-bawld noun a trickster spirit or a gnome that lives underground; a German leprechaun 1896In the Blue PikeHow could she have suspected that what stirred her passionate soul so fiercely was grief at the sight of the man whom she had regarded as the stronghold of integrity, the possessor of the firmest will, the soul of inviolable fidelity, succumbing here, before the eyes of all, like a dissolute weakling, to the seductive arts of an immature kobold? 1920The Metal MonsterA troll from the kindergarten! A kobold of the toys!1981Blue AdeptNay, thou art more likely a giant kobold, serving in the house of the human lady.2000American GodsThey brought me, and Loki and Thor, Anansi and the Lion-God, Leprechauns and Kobolds and Banshees, Ku-bera and Frau Holle and Ashtaroth, and they brought you.Labels: A. Merritt, Georg Ebers, Neil Gaiman, Piers Anthony
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