The Gremlins are imaginary of approximately 70 cm, malevolent creatures, involuntarily amusing. They emanate from a legend of aeronautics military, born in Great Britain during the Second world war and being used to justify the incidents whose the fighter pilots of the RAF were victims: Gremlins deteriorate the aerofoils, break the engines… Gremlins appeared in the work of fiction of the writer Roald Dahl in 1943, fiction always not translated into French nowadays.

Cinema

In films produced during the Years 1980 ( Gremlins and Gremlins 2 ), Gremlins are small malefic creatures which are the monstrous change smaller and benevolent creatures answering in the name of mogwaïs. They change thus when they eat food the night after midnight. Gremlins are afraid of the light and are clonent when they are in contact with water. The name of the gremlin " gentil" is Gizmo

See too

• Femlin S, of small female characters, with the rebounded forms, which haunted the pages of the magazine Playboy .

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