Robin Goodfellow
nature_spirit earth fairy folklore single tradition · 3
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #825 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 1531 CE
- Attested period
- 1531 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Earliest reference cited by Oxford English Dictionary is from 1531; mentioned in Anthony Munday's 1584 play and appears in Skialtheia (1598).
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Billy Blind, Blue Burches, Robin Roundcap, Dobby, Brownies, Puck
- manifests as
- hobgoblins
- serves
- Oberon
- syncretized with
- Bwbach
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“While brownies are more peaceful creatures, hobgoblins are more fond of practical jokes. They also seem to be able to shapeshift, as seen in one of Puck's monologues in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Robin Goodfellow is perhaps the most mischievous and most infamous of all his kind, but many are less antagonizing.”
#34490 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Robin Goodfellow appears in 'The Mad Pranks of Robin Goodfellow'... we recognize our brave friend Robin Goodfellow, the old mole that can work the earth so fast, that worthy pioneer – the Revolution.”
#34636 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5