A Common Ground Goblin (Diabolus vulgaris)
Field Guide description[]
Goblins (Family: Adentlidae)[]
Greater Bull Goblin
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- Common Ground Goblin rare goblin who is mischievous but good-natured is known as a hobgoblin.
- Goblins and Hobgoblins are related to Knockers.
Spiderwick Chronicles[]
A Goblin pack camped in a forest north of the Estate. This pack consisted of Claw-Snotbelly, Flowerbutt and around eight others. Hogsqueal lived with this pack until he tried to save a cat from being eaten by the others. As penance, the Goblins locked him in a cage. The pack later captured Simon Grace and a Griffin named Byron. After Jared and Mallory rescue Simon and Hogsqueal, they trick the Goblins into heading toward a hungry River Troll, who proceeded to eat them.
Mulgarath later gathered a large number of goblins to serve as his army and elects Wormrat would be his second-in-command. At least one of these goblins were killed by Mallory, who was briefly traumatized after killing a sentient being. After Mulgarath's death, the Goblins scattered into smaller, squabbling bands.
Another Goblin was eating the trash of Devon L.'s family. Devon managed to capture the Goblin, who then used glamour to look like a big toad. Devon made the Goblin promise to not eat any more trash or cats before he released it. Devon later felt good when he saw lots more cats in the neighborhood- until the neighbors' long-eared bunny disappeared.
One member of the International Sprite League kept a Goblin in a cage for years, believing it was a Sprite; he didn't have the Sight and thus couldn't see what he kept.
Another member of the ISL caught one of the above-mentioned decoy Sprites, keeping an invisible specimen in a cage. The creature remained hidden until dark, where-apon it opened its prison and mauradered its "owner's" home, eating anything fitting into its mouth.
Unfortunately, there is an organization called the Goblineers Association who specializes on keeping Goblins as pets.
Role in The Spiderwick Chronicles (film)[]
Red Cap (voiced by Ron Perlman) with some Goblin underlings.
The goblins serve as supporting antagonists in the film adaptation. While the goblins in the book seem to only be green, in the film, the goblins vary in shades of green, brown, and orange. They also appear in folklore
In British folklore, a Goblin is a generally evil, prankish spirit. Goblins range from mean-sprited pranksters to violent brutes who break into houses and kidnap children.
Appearances[]
- The Seeing Stone (First appearance)
- Lucinda's Secret (Mentioned only)
- The Ironwood Tree
- The Wrath of Mulgarath
- The Lost Chapters: Goblins Attack
- The Lost Chapters: Great Escape
- Notebook for Fantastical Observations
- Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide
- Care and Feeding of Sprites (Mentioned only)
- The Nixie's Song (Mentioned only)
- The Wyrm King (Mentioned only)