tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post8515197867563826347..comments2024-01-05T05:02:20.353+00:00Comments on CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: DALE DRINNON: The Lincoln Impology continuesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-47019980080877168212010-07-28T18:05:06.600+01:002010-07-28T18:05:06.600+01:00Hello Ego and Re; Leprechauns: You have mentioned ...Hello Ego and Re; Leprechauns: You have mentioned someting that occurs across the various other named-categories: besides being subterranean and/or woodlands creatures, brownies and kobolds are also said to be water sprites. There is a distinction to be made between sightings of such creatures and beliefs about such creatures, and althogh Wildmen in Russia are still being seen around watering-holes and swimming a lot, the superstition about such creatures described them as being "Attached" to one element or location, and "Controlling" it. Hence evidently the Men-in-the-woods were thought to govern things actually MADE out of wood, such as houses or churches. And some brownies lived in millponds and were said to govern the water level. That does not mean anything about any presumed powers such creatures being seen in modern times could be assumed to possess.<br /><br />The part about "Governing" the building could well be why there was the tradition that the Imp was the guardian of the secret. It basically would not mean anything of any especial importance and the same statement could probably be found in thousands of other locations and circumstances. The klaboutermanner are said to be the good-luch charms on the ships they inhabit-but supposedly actually seeing one spells the ship's doom<br /><br />Leprechaun and cluricaun are actually two forms of the same word and the original seems to have meant "Pygmy": Boris Poirshnev had an article about that at one point. As such they were supposed to lurk in forest thickets and in caves or burrows, but they could be seen crossing meadows by moonlight. The oldest descriptions were also of the typical goblin or brownie sort-hairy and unclothed, and highly suspicious in nature. At the same time folktales frequently cast them in the part of tricksters. Some of the stories about leprechauns or bogles or whatever would also later be turned into tales of dealing with the devil. Rumplestiltskin was a sort of trickster-imp at first and the story is basically another variation on how to get out of a deal with the devil.<br /><br /><br />Needless to say there is some variety in opinions about such matters and I do not doubt that your sources said what you said they said. That would also be neither the beginning nor the end to the matter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-69739595751963702432010-07-28T14:52:10.392+01:002010-07-28T14:52:10.392+01:00A recent book "The Grail Chronicles" by ...A recent book "The Grail Chronicles" by E.C. Cole suggests that the Grail is buried in Lincoln Cathedral and the Imp is indicating its whereabouts.Ego Ronanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13473992719456848761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-11383242309793440412010-07-28T14:47:44.543+01:002010-07-28T14:47:44.543+01:00With regard to the leprechaun mentioned above, it ...With regard to the leprechaun mentioned above, it was never to my knowledge envisaged as a homesprite. In the early romance "Eachtra Fergus mac Leite", leprechauns seem to be aquatic creatures, able to swim under water. A later version of this romance makes them a community, ruled by a king, but in modern folklore the leprechaun is a solitary creature and stories about him are surprisingly scarce.<br /><br />If my memory serves me, Grimm suggests that kobolds were sometimes used by ventriloquists. The kobold had movable jaws and the ventriloquist could make them laugh loudly. Hence, "to laugh like a kobold".Ego Ronanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13473992719456848761noreply@blogger.com