kobalos
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The kobalos is a Greek sprite that is related to the kabeiroi and the kerkopes. It was later equated with the kabeiroi and has been linked by nineteenth‑century scholars to a wide range of European sprites. The term gave rise to Latin cobalus and later to French gobelin and English goblin.
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“The kobalos is related to two other Greek sprites: the kabeiroi (pygmies with large phalluses) and the kerkopes.”
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