Goblin

Etymology

The word goblin (of the Breton korr , dwarf , followed diminutive ig and suffix year , Breton plural: Korriganed ) means “small dwarf” with suffix very frequent Hypocoristique in the names of people. With female, one finds sometimes a form feminized with the French manner “korrigane”, who can indicate a fairy malfaisante. The prefixes corr (Welsh literature) and horn (old Cornique) indicate both a dwarf.

Description

August 1st The goblins, sometimes so called poulpiquets, let us kormandons, kérions, or goblins, are spirits taking the appearance of dwarf S in the Tradition Breton Celtique and in particular . Benevolent or malevolent according to the cases, their appearance is varied. For example they are equipped with a splendid hair and luminous red eyes, with the help of which they can Ensorceler the mortals. They haunt the source S and the fountains. A Breton legend, reported by Yann Brekilien, describes them as small, black and hairy and being capped flat hats with velvet ribbons, whereas the girls were capped bonnets purple. Another Breton legend, known as that they call the mortals with fallen the day to make them come around a fire where goblins dance. If the mortal joint with their dance, that involves it in a trap where it finishes killed or sent in an underground cave. With the the Middle Ages, one allots to them with terror the Ronds witch whom one sometimes finds on the meadows or in the underwood. It is said that they make circle there to dance with fallen the day. To the mortal who disturbs them, it happens that they propose challenges which, if they are successful, give the right to a wish (what is in general the case for the good men) but who can, in the event of failure, to transform itself into traps mortals carrying out straight in Enfer or in a prison under ground without hope of delivery. In the night of the October 31st, one claims that they prevail near the Dolmen S, ready to involve their victims in the underground world to avenge deaths for the misdeeds of the alive ones. This tradition attaches them to not Celtic the Halloween in the beginning celebrates Samain; Celtic new year, become with the wire of the centuries and the religions the festival which we know today.

Sometimes also, they symbolize the resistance of the Brittany to the Christianisation and one then lends to them night jokes in the vicinity of the church S taking particularly the priests for targets.

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