Sandspur is a small trash-eating faerie with a fondness for sand and a constant hunger.
Biography[]
Sandspur is caught by Laurie and Nick and kept as a pet. Despite his first attempts to escape, he accepts Nick and Laurie and follows them around even after they try to get rid of him. Although Taloa calls him a "hob " in The Nixie's Song and Laurie calls him a hobgoblin in A Giant Problem , he is later identified by Laurie as a spriggan in The Wyrm King when his hunger makes him swell up like a fat thing that ate a car. He is therefore the only creature in the books (other than the Wyrm King-the best creature in world- and the humanoid insects from The Nixie's Song) whose species is not mentioned in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide. Despite this under Goblins in the Field Guide there is a Goblin with a bottle on its back just like Sandspur. In the end of the book, he apparently is also able to use glamour to make himself look like a cat.