I know this video is a week late but honestly it's not my fault... a goblin ate my script, that is the totally believable and 100% legit excuse I'm going with. Also no goblins were harmed in the making of this video.
The thing about getting goblins out of your home with clothes reminds me of a German fairy tale: A cobbler and his wife have three of them living in their house, always finishing unfinished shoes during the night. One night the wife decides that they deserve a nice reward, especially since the nights are cold and the poor creatures must be freezing. So she and her husband make beautiful miniature clothes for them and hide during the night, to see what will happen. The three goblins find the clothes and are seriously happy to get some fancy clothes. So they decide that with these new clothes, they don't want to be cobblers anymore and disappear from the house. But they leave a blessing behind so the cobbler's business flourishes for as long as he and his wife live. I really like this tale. For me it's one about gratitude and appreciation of hard work.
I think thats a pretty common fairy tale, The Elves and the Shoemaker. Although, I've never heard it summed up so completely and thoroughly by anyone before. You were able to get the whole story in just a few sentences. Nicely done.
It actually is not about Goblins. In the actual German version they are referred to as "Wichtelmänner", which are just little hard working mysterious man. They are not house spirits and not Goblins.
I love this and your other videos as well! There's alot of Egyptian, Nordic and Greek mythology information available but I'd love to see more Celtic and Irish mythology videos 🥰
"Time is money, friend!" "Gimme you' gold or I'll eat your children!" "Hobogoblin" "I'm not a goblin in disguise..." At this point, I'm just here to see you slowly slip deeper into madness.
Madness is a helluva trip. Like many smokeable plants, the trip is either like Snow White's escape into the woods in the Disney film back in the day, or its like the psychedelic music videos from the Steven Universe film (or movie if you prefer).
Yeah I played a goblin in dnd ended up becoming a god of goblins and thanks to an 8-year-old little girl misspelling my character's name Davin blackbow I became the greatest goblin King ever David Bowie
5% of comments: "Wow, I learned something new today." 90% of comments: "Goblin slayer likes this." Remaining 5%: "Rimuru-sama makes female goblins THICC!!"
Since this is a reference to goblins in modern forms of Japanese anime/manga, has anyone read the manga or the light novel of Re: Monster? I am mostly curious since it is another isekai like Reincarnated Slime and in it the MC actually starts out as a goblin. They also change up the folklore of the goblins in this story, having it be like goblins are a kind of beginning larvae form of monster and depending on the training and accomplishments that goblin achieves they can become other types of monsters, with some exceptions.
It is funny but thanks to this video I think the Ferengi in Star Trek lore could be based around goblins. Small, mischief, always looking to make money and very unreliable. Great video btw, just started watching this channel and I binge watch a couple videos every night.
Oh, absolutely - as soon as I have seen them I thought of Goblins! Interesting Idea to make the Goblins a greedy little merchant folk that are Not always just out to robb & plunder... they could have a society with villages or even cities mimiking the human society in strange ways...
@@racookstersince Breton Woods in 1971 - this way they eliminated the thoughtfully placed boundaries and limitations for Money and could Blow this bubble Up Just with thin air. Now they Had so much Money they could by Up 100 times the gold of the planet and everything else they wanted. Clever Goblins!
I played a Goblin Ranger in D&D who was a self professed "King of the Cistern". Mostly because I was the only one who could stand to live down there, but whatever. It counts.
I'm an English major who's planning on going into fantasy writing. For years, Goblins, Trolls, and Orcs go hand-in-hand as evil humanoid minions of the Dark Lord in so much fantasy. In my series, I'm turning that trope on its head with the 3 clans have their own distinct cultures, traditions, and lifestyles, just as sentient and capable of good and evil as the Elves, Dwarves, and everyone else. And instead of being allies their respective nations are sworn enemies and have been at war with each other for centuries.
I'm probably calling it The Kulzera Kronicles but it's still very much a working progress. But you can follow me on IG where I do lots of artwork and stuff- vytas_999
@@thedarknutsackreturns431 My idea was that Goblins and Orcs are fighting over land, resources, beliefs, etc. While Trolls are fighting both because in Scandinavian folklore, Trolls like to kidnap children. So for some Trolls their right-of-passage is kidnapping babies from both clans.
I have two favorites. One is a Goblin Barbarian/ Frenzied Berserker who has psychotic breaks when he rages and loves targetting the opponent's kneecaps. He's a simple soul. The other was a paranoid trap maker who had a Ballista mounted on his wagon and would get pissed off when the enemy didn't do what he planned. Thats actually why he got the Ballista, he needed a more direct solution.
A very unique and mystical subject. I remember I used to have "The field guide to the little people" written by Nancy Arrowsmith. That book got me acquainted and aware of these small and short and invariably talented and gifted individuals. My mother and grandmother would talk on occasion of their houses dumavoys, russalkas and voydyanis since they were of Russian descent. I love hearing about this kind of stuff and have always wondered what I would say if I actually had the chance to speak to one of the more civil typed ones.
In the webcomic Goblins (a fantastic webcomic I highly recommend it) the goblins are portrayed more as a nomadic neolithic society who are only "evil" because of their god Magubliyet that constantly demands messed-up things. It's based on Dungeons and Dragons (3.5e) and shows goblins in a light rarely seen in fiction.
In Dragonfable and other games by Artix Entertainment, you can encounter goblins that are called "sneevil". Mostly your typical goblins, except one thing; they don't want gold, they want boxes. They absolutely love empty boxes, even more than cats, and will do everything to get their hands on them, which is the plot of a number of quests. And then there is that time when the player buys the loyalty of a sneevil king and his entire army with thousands of boxes, all though the king only knew that "thousands" is more than 5.
Interesting about the colander set outside to trick the goblin into counting the holes. Reminds me of throwing seeds at night outside for the vampire to count and keep them too busy to do harm. This was a great video!
Hob actually starts as mischief or trouble then it's also a old English short for Robert a bit later it gets changed from mischief to devilish which is actually where the "old hob" comes from.
I had no idea that goblins were supposed to be hairy. I think there’s an Anunnaki version of goblins/dwarves that was created to work in the claustrophobic mines, adapted to harsh conditions & poisonous air, while being gifted masters of metals.
@@brandonharris9160 Well, perhaps a subspecies of Man. This video was on goblins, & yes, the Anunnaki supposedly created Man in their image, for the purpose of mining gold, according to the Ancient Sumerians, but gold isn’t all that was mined, & there are stories of them also creating a smaller race of dwarves as well, who were supposedly even better suited to mine deeper within the earth where the air was more toxic & unbearable for Man. There are images of them supposedly in some Ancient Egyptian art, archeologists just calling them dwarves. It’s all speculative, of course, because we are talking ancient mythologies, & then trying to apply those folklore stories to what we know exist in modern times. (Incidentally, there are stories of Native Americans that include both tribes of giants, but lesser known also tribes of little people. It’s hard getting information on this because nothing was written down, so it was primarily anecdotal accounts that had been passed down)
@@dafttoolVERY interesting topic. In Austria we have many tiny tunnels named as ERDSTALL. There is a brilliant Professor by the name KUSCH who is exploring this topic for ages. He found out mind-blowing things in the archives of the nobles and the church about the origin of these tunnels. Long story short: there must be another race live underground!
About the goblins with holes in their hands. In the Netherlands, there's a saying for the type of people who don't think before they buy and spend it as soon as they have some. In Dutch you can say that that person (literal translation) 'has a hole in his/her hand'.
Yes they are! That's because someone in our distant past was messing around with our human dna in a lab. I think in an attempt to sabotage everything God created on earth, especially humans. They were mixing human dna with themselves, animals, sea creatures and even insects. This is why you hear tales of giants, mermaids, centaurs, minotaurs, fairies, etc. Today we still hear of creatures like bigfoot and dogman which are also mixed with human dna.
@@marti8053 Nah. Your religion has fkd up your worldview. It has demonized everything not fitting in the narrative, kinda arrogant if you ask me. Reminds of what's going on right now with everyone who doesn't agree with a certain kind of political narrative being called a nazi.
@@marti8053 I believe that giants were real once fallen angels had sex with human women and the women gave birth to them. I think that pagan gods were actually fallen angels that tried to rule the earth after they got kicked out of heaven.
1:30 Says goblins are "mischievous creatures with a desire for gold..." Are leprechauns then just simply Irish goblins? Are gremlins the same as goblins? Are gnomes just simply peaceful goblins?
Yes? You have to keep in mind that goblins, brownies, kobolds, gnomes and other assorted names for whimsical or mischievous spirits and creatures were often and still technically are pretty interchangeable. Yeah, if you were dealing with a mostly helpful, hairy, impish creature you'd generally refer to them as say brownies but you could also call them a goblin and no one would really care because there's no set definition outside popular, derivative fantasy settings on what is or isn't a goblin and even then that's not an across the board agreement.
You know what surprises me, the fact that there are no goblins in any pirate ship crews or any goblins living and hiding in Las Vegas and it’s casinos.
Ben Whitefield In my experience, An-caps are very anti-Semitic white dudes who don’t tolerate the presence of any non-aryan races or non-Christian religions. So no, there wouldn’t be any Jews within any distance of them.
Just saw this - thank you and great job with it! I'd been looking for something on goblins, piecing together various sources... and this had a lot of useful material! I'm curious, where is the elf / fae one mentioned in the Fomorian video? I see the Cerununnos one, and Fomorians, and you mentioned Puck here (whom Shakespear kinda placed in the fae court).. but I'd love to see the one (or more about) the fae across cultures - Tuatha De Danaan / Tylwyth Teg, Ljósálfar, and especially other cultures where equivalent and similar beings might be? (leaving aside popular re-imaginings of course)
Actually! I just did the research! I've been researching the Wendat natives previously from my area of the Great Lakes, and their story of the young giant Kitchekawana and his father Manitou. A giant from Niagra Falls slayed a snake that was making local tribes sick. He lured it to the mouth of the falls and cut off its head, but its body blocked the river and caused a great buildup of water, which collapsed the giants large cavern home that existed underneath the falls, creating the current "U" shape in the falls. In the end the giant was successful, but lost his home.
You know what the crazy thing is? I was lead to this by observing land formations in Northern Canada that appear as if the were carved out by a massive massive giant huge slithering thing. And then I found massive giant human footprints in Nunavut. To the left of Nanisivik. Then I found them everywhere across the globe. We were looking too small. Some of these giants were over 2km tall, as ludicrous as that sounds to us little people. They weren't from here. There is a lineage of giants that can be traced back to a giant of the stars Uranus/Oranus and a female earth giant Gaia from my research.
Elves come from Norse/Germanic/Old English tradition. Odin, Thor and the rest. As are goblins. This is also where four of the seven days of the week get their names.
I don't know if it's just the influence of D&D, but now thinking about it, but Rumpelstiltskin isn't your common fey creature, he's capable of turning straw into golden thread permanently. and its implied that deals unfulfilled with him can have very bad consequences. I'd say he's more akin to an archfey.
Maybe some kind of genie or even a minor god (Garl Glittergold springs instantly to mind)... either that or he's a high-level gnome transmutation wizard with a fetish for babies. Archfey is a good bet, though. Ol' Rumplestiltskin ticks all the Archfey boxes... except the ugliness. Most Archfey are SUPER vain and choose nothing but the most beautiful of forms when they change shape. This is not to say that a particularly clever or deceitful (or humble lol fat chance) Archfey wouldn't take on the form of a wizened gnome or goblin.
Some of our favorite Gobs are Styx, Gazlowe, and many others i am sure but those two are the only ones i personally know or can think the top of my head. More might come in time. The spiderman villains do not count because they are not "Real" goblins.
I love your videos! They are so descriptive and easy to understand. I would like to request a video, can you do a video describing the “Gravemind” from the Halo game series? it is a very interesting subject and may interest you...
I see that you used the image of goblin chainwhirler from Magic the gathering, which reminds me how well they are represented on that card game including the feel of hastiness, dumbness and self sacrifice in order to do a burning effect towards the opponent. Magic the gathering represents many mythological creatures really well including their essential nature as portrayed on the myths from which they come from.
I just discovered your channel. You're very informative and entertaining. My favorite goblin is Jared, the Goblin King - don't hit me (R. I. P. David Bowie)
I love that movie! He made a great goblin king 😀 One of the Monty Python guys, Terry Jones, wrote a book on the Labyrinth goblins, The Goblin Companion, it's hilarious, highly recommend it. It has illustrations by Brian Fraud, the guy who designed those goblins for the movie. He has other books about fae lore too, his illustrations are truly amazing.
In Dungeons and Dragons, Orcs, Trolls, and Goblins are actually unrelated. Trolls are related to Ogres and Giants, Orcs are related to Elves and Humans, and Goblins are related to Hobgoblins and Bugbears. In the works of Tolkien, there is basically no difference between Orcs and Goblins (the few differences having been explained in the video) while Trolls were magically created living weapons (like the Dragons and Balrogs) from when all the Elves and weird demigods were fighting with each other over who sung the wrong notes in the song that made the world. In folklore, Trolls and Goblins are also unrelated, with Trolls being mainly large solitary predators while Goblins tended to be more social and "civilized" sometimes even living in human dwellings and towns and co-operating with the locals (always in secret). Goblins were also considered faeries and related to Elves while trolls were not as far as I know. Trolls are from Norse mythology whereas the mythological origins of Goblins are a little more unclear (probably Greece though). I'm not sure if Orcs existed in folklore or if Tolkien made them up. In World of Warcraft, Goblins and Trolls are related to each other while Orcs come from another planet entirely although they now all co-exist and co-operate in a single society. I hope that helps.
Trolls can regenerate missing limbs, so fire is the best way to end their life, or sunlight turns them to stone. The other two don't regenerate. Goblins are original creatures and small, Orcs are a hybrid of Goblins and Elves or Humans. If you mate an Orc and a full Human or Elf you get a Half-Orc.
I tbought my house was haunted with ghosts or infested w mice because you could here things moving around, sometimes even crashing w no evidence of anything broke or moved. Until one night i was downstairs and heard a door close slightly and i sneaked to the bottom of steps and put foot on step, it creaked and i heard small footsteps running lightly across the room. The pitter patter was very fast and ive been researching these creatures ever since.
The jokes and side story tangents were pretty corny, but somehow I laughed anyway. Stuff like that adds character to your videos and sets you apart from other channels. I like it! 👍
I love playing as goblins too. I have 3 of the little buggers -- Trixzie, my Shaman, Gadjet, Trixzie's daughter, a hunter who's favourite pet is her Hyena, and Eveie the Warlock.
Of all goblins in pop culture the goblin hordes of the magic the gathering multiverse is among my favorites. From the moogs of the plane of Rath to the hardened warriors and survivalists of the plane of Tarkir the goblins of the magic multiverse provides examples of all the archetypes you mentioned along with some truly unique and interesting twists on the goblin concept. Among the the greatest examples of goblin kind of the multiverse we have Squee a goblin from the plane of dominaria. After being caught by the Phyrexians during their invasion of his home plane he was cursed with immortality so his captors could enjoy themselves by killing him over and over again. As a card flavor text informs us squee doesn't view his condition as a curse and as a side effect he's also the oldest known goblin in the multiverse and for a short lived and accident prone race that's quite impressive.
I think Guan Yu (Chinese saint) would be a good topic for you to cover as he has a decent story that would fit well with your channel. Plus it's a Chinese story and you don't currently have too many of those kinds of myths/ legends.
I love watching these videos,but where I'm from when u put rice grains outside is so that bad spirits count the grains,by the time they're finished it's day light so they flee from the light,your videos r awesome love it.
12:59 me: How would you describe an orc? friend: big, ugly, stupid, deformed monster. How so? me: really? Than how do you explain THIS HOTTIE *shows picture of Azog* 💖💖💖
13:00 Goblin is simply a synonym for orc in the books and the distinction between them that exists in the Jackson's movies doesn't exist. Hobgoblins a name for large orcs, like the Uruk-hai, but they are still both goblins and orcs.
Yes, hobgoblin was going to be the name for larger orcs, but after a second research Tolkien discovered that hobgoblins weren't actually bigger or more powerful than goblins ("the statement that hobgoblins were 'a larger kind' is the reverse of the original truth") so the name got forgotten. Everything is correct, I don't know why both terms are so confusing to many.
I had a character years back that has gained some renown in my local area named Badric. Badric started life as an idea in my head of a Goblin that thinks he's a Halfling. After a few sessions, that was abandoned and he became essentially a shenanigans character with insanely good luck. I don't mean he had feats that allowed for rerolling or anything like that. Whenever I was playing him, my dice rolled for the best possible outcome. I have since retired those dice, kept near his mini. (They're absolutely magic, by the way. I took them out to use as a DM and TPKed the party five times in one session.) Anyways, over the course of the campaign, he became a master chef, a pirate captain, a gypsy king, and a god, just to name a few of his minor accomplishments. Oh, and he killed a demon prince with back-to-back smites. Because Bard, that's why. He has since made appearances in friend's campaigns as an NPC, usually a trickster deity messing with the party for bottle sessions.
I know this video is a week late but honestly it's not my fault... a goblin ate my script, that is the totally believable and 100% legit excuse I'm going with. Also no goblins were harmed in the making of this video.
I wish I was ready for the all the references I'm about to not understand lol.
Mythology & Fiction Explained you are racist against goblins
HAD Trio I was just joking
Just wait until everyone starts making references to "the spiderwick chronicles".
Can you do polynesian mythology?
The thing about getting goblins out of your home with clothes reminds me of a German fairy tale:
A cobbler and his wife have three of them living in their house, always finishing unfinished shoes during the night.
One night the wife decides that they deserve a nice reward, especially since the nights are cold and the poor creatures must be freezing. So she and her husband make beautiful miniature clothes for them and hide during the night, to see what will happen.
The three goblins find the clothes and are seriously happy to get some fancy clothes.
So they decide that with these new clothes, they don't want to be cobblers anymore and disappear from the house. But they leave a blessing behind so the cobbler's business flourishes for as long as he and his wife live.
I really like this tale. For me it's one about gratitude and appreciation of hard work.
I think thats a pretty common fairy tale, The Elves and the Shoemaker. Although, I've never heard it summed up so completely and thoroughly by anyone before. You were able to get the whole story in just a few sentences. Nicely done.
It actually is not about Goblins. In the actual German version they are referred to as "Wichtelmänner", which are just little hard working mysterious man. They are not house spirits and not Goblins.
@@Nubbletech Wichtelmänner and Kobolde (goblins) belong to the same family of house spirits!
@@Nubbletech one of my wivesjanet Rogers was a goblen in every sense of the word
I'm glad I read this in its entirety. Thank you for sharing!
The scary little men of American folklore work at E.A and Activision
Puckwudgies aren't very nice.
Or for the irs
Do not insult them. There are things that not even they would do.
All this time I thought it was Walmart!
@@wabbitnred3609 no those are just teenagers
I think the closest thing we have for mischievous Goblins in realife is Raccoons.
Ha ha
And Opossum.
Honeybadger :D
blud
Yeah but Macaques and especially Baboons come close too.
I've always wanted to make a DnD character that's actually 3 Goblins in a trenchcoat
There's a tabletop called crash panda where you play as multiple raccoons in a trenchcoat trying to pass yourselves off as a human racecar driver
XD that's perfect.
Threegrot
*disguise gets busted
"We've been ratted out, boys"
that would be a good character
"They were so unpleasant to look at they were ordered to live underground and only come out during night" - Yep, I feel your pain Goblins
Inspired by bats?
🎶You go, my lad, hoho, my lad! Down down to Goblin Town, down down to Goblin Town 🎶
Liberate the goblins!
Am I a goblin? *Illuminati music plays*
0:19 _"...everybody's favourite mischievous, big nosed, greedy, gold hoarding creatures..."_
*shuffles uncomfortably*
Oh boy...
& I oop
@Kurt Barryman AHAHAHAHAHA I LOVE YOUU😂😂😂💚
Kurt Barryman not to mention our media or our government.
Oy vey! The gentiles know.
"You know I'm something of a Goblin myself"
So am I, especially with certain parts of my girlfriend.😋😛😝😜😏😂😂😂
Goblin Slayer:TRIGGERED!!!!
Nice Norman Osborn reference. XD
@@ronjayrose9706 "I see."
Does your last name end in Stein or Berg?
I love this and your other videos as well! There's alot of Egyptian, Nordic and Greek mythology information available but I'd love to see more Celtic and Irish mythology videos 🥰
"Time is money, friend!"
"Gimme you' gold or I'll eat your children!"
"Hobogoblin"
"I'm not a goblin in disguise..."
At this point, I'm just here to see you slowly slip deeper into madness.
I see a World of Warcraft reference up there. Think the first time was in Stranglethorn Vale.
Madness is a helluva trip.
Like many smokeable plants, the trip is either like Snow White's escape into the woods in the Disney film back in the day, or its like the psychedelic music videos from the Steven Universe film (or movie if you prefer).
That’s fucked up but funny.
@Ron Burgundy Pagan aint nazi, get straight
If goblins met Zeus and did that most of the children would be killed by hera
Styx is an amazing character and a perfect example of a goblin.
Loved the games wish it got another sequel
@@shodan2002 Ever played of Orcs and Men? Styx is actually a spinn-off of that.
Yeah I played a goblin in dnd ended up becoming a god of goblins and thanks to an 8-year-old little girl misspelling my character's name Davin blackbow I became the greatest goblin King ever David Bowie
Ah yes, my favorite song from David bowie Star goblin and scary goblins (and super rich)
5% of comments: "Wow, I learned something new today."
90% of comments: "Goblin slayer likes this."
Remaining 5%: "Rimuru-sama makes female goblins THICC!!"
Lolz so true
You forgot the racist anti-semitic garbage. That seems to be about 2-5% of the comments...
@@Xenophage100 lolz so jew
What about the % of goblins pretending to not be goblins?
Since this is a reference to goblins in modern forms of Japanese anime/manga, has anyone read the manga or the light novel of Re: Monster? I am mostly curious since it is another isekai like Reincarnated Slime and in it the MC actually starts out as a goblin. They also change up the folklore of the goblins in this story, having it be like goblins are a kind of beginning larvae form of monster and depending on the training and accomplishments that goblin achieves they can become other types of monsters, with some exceptions.
The picture you used for Redcaps is, fittingly enough, a well-known Magic: the Gathering card called Murderous Redcap.
As a fellow goblin i say greetings to you my brother
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Greetings fellow goblins!
It is funny but thanks to this video I think the Ferengi in Star Trek lore could be based around goblins. Small, mischief, always looking to make money and very unreliable. Great video btw, just started watching this channel and I binge watch a couple videos every night.
Oh, absolutely - as soon as I have seen them I thought of Goblins!
Interesting Idea to make the Goblins a greedy little merchant folk that are Not always just out to robb & plunder... they could have a society with villages or even cities mimiking the human society in strange ways...
Goblin Slayer is watching this, taking notes.
Goblin Slayer teaches the advanced courses.
Can’t wait for season 2
This whole video I was waiting for goblin slayer to take over the lessons!
Goblin slayer was over rated! ADMIT IT
@@jacobmortimore What did you think it was going to be about?
We repel goblins in the USA because our currency is not backed by gold.
Best comment here lol
No country's currency is anymore. Maybe that's why you never see any goblins.
@@racooksterit's because they Work as banksters These days. In fact Lord Rothschild is "3 Goblins hiding under a Trenchcoat" pretending to be human!
@@racookstersince Breton Woods in 1971 - this way they eliminated the thoughtfully placed boundaries and limitations for Money and could Blow this bubble Up Just with thin air. Now they Had so much Money they could by Up 100 times the gold of the planet and everything else they wanted. Clever Goblins!
"Do your own chores yah lazy lil goblins!" 😂😂😂😭
Some do chores for us
Crotch goblins?
Lol that part had me cracking up - I’m the lazy goblin that was wondering where I can find one of these 🤣
@@crystal4046 as am I. This guy is my actual favorite youtuber I could watch his content all day.
@@dakotathomas318 same here... even though he's a GAAAABBBBLLLLLIIIIIINNNNNN!!!
I played a Goblin Ranger in D&D who was a self professed "King of the Cistern". Mostly because I was the only one who could stand to live down there, but whatever. It counts.
I felt like a five year old hearing a story again and it was honestly so much fun.
I'm an English major who's planning on going into fantasy writing. For years, Goblins, Trolls, and Orcs go hand-in-hand as evil humanoid minions of the Dark Lord in so much fantasy. In my series, I'm turning that trope on its head with the 3 clans have their own distinct cultures, traditions, and lifestyles, just as sentient and capable of good and evil as the Elves, Dwarves, and everyone else. And instead of being allies their respective nations are sworn enemies and have been at war with each other for centuries.
What will it be called?
@@lilyok6485 What? My series?
Yes. It’s sounds really good and I’d love to read it.
I'm probably calling it The Kulzera Kronicles but it's still very much a working progress. But you can follow me on IG where I do lots of artwork and stuff- vytas_999
@@thedarknutsackreturns431 My idea was that Goblins and Orcs are fighting over land, resources, beliefs, etc. While Trolls are fighting both because in Scandinavian folklore, Trolls like to kidnap children. So for some Trolls their right-of-passage is kidnapping babies from both clans.
Will you do a future video on faeries, or the fair folk from celtic folklore and different cultures?
i paused at the "is a homeless hobgoblin a hobogoblin" and then when i hit play, an ad started playing with some inception-style music
I have two favorites.
One is a Goblin Barbarian/ Frenzied Berserker who has psychotic breaks when he rages and loves targetting the opponent's kneecaps. He's a simple soul.
The other was a paranoid trap maker who had a Ballista mounted on his wagon and would get pissed off when the enemy didn't do what he planned. Thats actually why he got the Ballista, he needed a more direct solution.
"What?! How dare you don't do what I thought you would! Take this!"
“Down down underground. Down down down in Goblin Town. 🎤”
*eye glows red*
The only good goblin is one who stays in its hole.
Wait... Do you ever sleep?
Wow he's here too? This guy's great
Why are you every where?
Thought people were exaggerating about you being everywhere, but you really are, huh °-°
Aaaaggghhh a weeb
Someone: uploads a video about information about Goblins
Goblin Slayer: Interesting
That dude who always asking for this video finally got his wish
Ditditto The Dark Lxrd Bless him.
Always liked goblins, even the different versions from cultures. I wanted to make a D&D goblin character so bad when i played it as a kid
You can play one in Pathfinder 1e, they're a PC race. They make great Rogues, and assassins (sneak attack masters). I run a game of it.
Noticed that you never mentioned the greatest goblin of all, David Bowie. The swag of his area shall not shine on you today.
#Areaology
I know which are you speak of..
Also disappointed by the lack of reference ;_;
Now, to be fair, it's a really good plot point that Jareth ISN'T a goblin. He's just their king
Avalon Azure then what the hell else would he be. I just think he's a goblin that became too fabulous, which is why he looks like he does.
God!!!, What a great movie!
Lol my cousin practically worships David Bowie
A very unique and mystical subject. I remember I used to have "The field guide to the little people" written by Nancy Arrowsmith. That book got me acquainted and aware of these small and short and invariably talented and gifted individuals. My mother and grandmother would talk on occasion of their houses dumavoys, russalkas and voydyanis since they were of Russian descent. I love hearing about this kind of stuff and have always wondered what I would say if I actually had the chance to speak to one of the more civil typed ones.
...well, you just have to walk into a bank - that's where the modern Goblin lair is! 😅
In the webcomic Goblins (a fantastic webcomic I highly recommend it) the goblins are portrayed more as a nomadic neolithic society who are only "evil" because of their god Magubliyet that constantly demands messed-up things. It's based on Dungeons and Dragons (3.5e) and shows goblins in a light rarely seen in fiction.
"Time is money, friend!" A replica every goblin npc in World of Warcraft has ever spoken to me at some point in time upon interaction.
"cannot count past number two"
Gaben is a goblin confirmed
Someome call goblin slayers is time hehe
Thank you so much for taking the time to make all of these videos! You're one of my favorite channels on TH-cam :)
Goblins changed the settings on my alarm & that's why I'm late for work, honestly!! 🤣😂
Heidi Bevan That would be a gremlin😯😯
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Where I'm from we have Myths about Goblins, Fairy's, Changing's ext, not that many Gremlins 😂👍🏴
Same here,friend same here
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Cool, at least I'm not the only one 🤣👍
I did nothing of the likes of that sort
“Dragon sickness... I’ve seen this before”
In Dragonfable and other games by Artix Entertainment, you can encounter goblins that are called "sneevil". Mostly your typical goblins, except one thing; they don't want gold, they want boxes.
They absolutely love empty boxes, even more than cats, and will do everything to get their hands on them, which is the plot of a number of quests.
And then there is that time when the player buys the loyalty of a sneevil king and his entire army with thousands of boxes, all though the king only knew that "thousands" is more than 5.
Interesting about the colander set outside to trick the goblin into counting the holes. Reminds me of throwing seeds at night outside for the vampire to count and keep them too busy to do harm.
This was a great video!
I love your videos! Thanks
" To some it sounds like their younger siblings" 😂
I can't stop laughing cuz it's so true!
A term for children is "crotch goblin".
@@red0421 what the actual fuck 😂😂😂
Hob is an ancient English name for the devil. “ Old Hob” was another common name for Satan.
" Hob".. It starts like a " hobbit " :O
Thought to be derived from "Robert"
Hob actually starts as mischief or trouble then it's also a old English short for Robert a bit later it gets changed from mischief to devilish which is actually where the "old hob" comes from.
@@itarry4thank you very much
@@itarry4...but why did Tolkien, who was a Prof in languages, used HOB for Hobbits and hobbingen???
I had no idea that goblins were supposed to be hairy. I think there’s an Anunnaki version of goblins/dwarves that was created to work in the claustrophobic mines, adapted to harsh conditions & poisonous air, while being gifted masters of metals.
You mean humans? That's what the Annunaki used humanity for, mining for gold supposedly
@@brandonharris9160 Well, perhaps a subspecies of Man. This video was on goblins, & yes, the Anunnaki supposedly created Man in their image, for the purpose of mining gold, according to the Ancient Sumerians, but gold isn’t all that was mined, & there are stories of them also creating a smaller race of dwarves as well, who were supposedly even better suited to mine deeper within the earth where the air was more toxic & unbearable for Man. There are images of them supposedly in some Ancient Egyptian art, archeologists just calling them dwarves. It’s all speculative, of course, because we are talking ancient mythologies, & then trying to apply those folklore stories to what we know exist in modern times. (Incidentally, there are stories of Native Americans that include both tribes of giants, but lesser known also tribes of little people. It’s hard getting information on this because nothing was written down, so it was primarily anecdotal accounts that had been passed down)
@@dafttoolVERY interesting topic. In Austria we have many tiny tunnels named as ERDSTALL. There is a brilliant Professor by the name KUSCH who is exploring this topic for ages. He found out mind-blowing things in the archives of the nobles and the church about the origin of these tunnels. Long story short: there must be another race live underground!
About the goblins with holes in their hands. In the Netherlands, there's a saying for the type of people who don't think before they buy and spend it as soon as they have some. In Dutch you can say that that person (literal translation) 'has a hole in his/her hand'.
Nobody:
Goblin Slayer: Goblins!?
Me: Ah shit..here we go again..
Goblin slayer?
@@thegrammarcrusader4085 You sir are in for a treat, or trauma.. depends on your sensitivity.
@@gyst8878 uhm.....that doesnt answer my quiestion but oky
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the anime "Goblin slayer"
One hell of a anime. ^^
1st off, goblin slayer is badass 2nd "treat or trama" gonna need to use this when Halloween swings by
I like focusing on realistic theories & as such I theorize that elves, orcs, humans, & such are actually related.
Yes they are! That's because someone in our distant past was messing around with our human dna in a lab. I think in an attempt to sabotage everything God created on earth, especially humans. They were mixing human dna with themselves, animals, sea creatures and even insects. This is why you hear tales of giants, mermaids, centaurs, minotaurs, fairies, etc. Today we still hear of creatures like bigfoot and dogman which are also mixed with human dna.
@@marti8053 yeah I definentely believe you yep
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Very creative. Kinda unnerving. 10/10
@@marti8053 Nah. Your religion has fkd up your worldview. It has demonized everything not fitting in the narrative, kinda arrogant if you ask me. Reminds of what's going on right now with everyone who doesn't agree with a certain kind of political narrative being called a nazi.
@@marti8053 I believe that giants were real once fallen angels had sex with human women and the women gave birth to them. I think that pagan gods were actually fallen angels that tried to rule the earth after they got kicked out of heaven.
1:30 Says goblins are "mischievous creatures with a desire for gold..." Are leprechauns then just simply Irish goblins? Are gremlins the same as goblins? Are gnomes just simply peaceful goblins?
Yes? You have to keep in mind that goblins, brownies, kobolds, gnomes and other assorted names for whimsical or mischievous spirits and creatures were often and still technically are pretty interchangeable. Yeah, if you were dealing with a mostly helpful, hairy, impish creature you'd generally refer to them as say brownies but you could also call them a goblin and no one would really care because there's no set definition outside popular, derivative fantasy settings on what is or isn't a goblin and even then that's not an across the board agreement.
Goblins and leprechauns are two different beings goblins are more on the malevolent side leprechauns are benevolent unless you mess with their gold
So a redcap is some sort of hemogoblin? Who would have thought.
Hemogoblin? 😂 that's brilliant
Goblin Slayer wants to know your location
You know what surprises me, the fact that there are no goblins in any pirate ship crews or any goblins living and hiding in Las Vegas and it’s casinos.
...or any goblins in the orange lantern Corp.
I love your videos man, thank you!
I love how you used Skyrim ambience.
A trite thought that just occurred to me , The Ferengi from Star Trek are, wait for it, Space Goblins :/
Space goblin anarcho-capitalists more like.
@@brabbit330 can you even be anarchocap without having jew within 5 miles at all times anyways
Ben Whitefield In my experience, An-caps are very anti-Semitic white dudes who don’t tolerate the presence of any non-aryan races or non-Christian religions.
So no, there wouldn’t be any Jews within any distance of them.
@@brabbit330 despite the fact almost all anarchist politics being almost exclusively written by Jewish intellectuals
@@brabbit330 and anti semitism is just pro-not being manipulated for profit
Just saw this - thank you and great job with it! I'd been looking for something on goblins, piecing together various sources... and this had a lot of useful material! I'm curious, where is the elf / fae one mentioned in the Fomorian video? I see the Cerununnos one, and Fomorians, and you mentioned Puck here (whom Shakespear kinda placed in the fae court).. but I'd love to see the one (or more about) the fae across cultures - Tuatha De Danaan / Tylwyth Teg, Ljósálfar, and especially other cultures where equivalent and similar beings might be? (leaving aside popular re-imaginings of course)
So how many anime weebs watching this thinking about goblin slayer
Jose Valenzuela me ✋
Alot
All of them
Myself include
YAHOE!
This is what I fall asleep too only thing that works your voice thank you for being so calm
Leave your "Spiderwick Chronicles" references below:
Please?
"I've got the best deals anywhere!"
haha - you sound like a DM when you impersonate these Goblins :D
They can't count to three because of the Holy Trinity.
Goblin Slayer: Did someone say goblins!?
(HEAVY BREATHING)
Very interesting indeed - I enjoyed watching all the different kind of goblins. Thumbs up!
Mythology and Fiction Explain Could you please do a video on the Unhcegila from Lakota native american mythology please
Sounds interesting! Care to give a brief synopsis?
Actually! I just did the research! I've been researching the Wendat natives previously from my area of the Great Lakes, and their story of the young giant Kitchekawana and his father Manitou. A giant from Niagra Falls slayed a snake that was making local tribes sick. He lured it to the mouth of the falls and cut off its head, but its body blocked the river and caused a great buildup of water, which collapsed the giants large cavern home that existed underneath the falls, creating the current "U" shape in the falls. In the end the giant was successful, but lost his home.
You know what the crazy thing is? I was lead to this by observing land formations in Northern Canada that appear as if the were carved out by a massive massive giant huge slithering thing. And then I found massive giant human footprints in Nunavut. To the left of Nanisivik. Then I found them everywhere across the globe. We were looking too small. Some of these giants were over 2km tall, as ludicrous as that sounds to us little people. They weren't from here. There is a lineage of giants that can be traced back to a giant of the stars Uranus/Oranus and a female earth giant Gaia from my research.
Goblins are my favourite fantasy race because of their rich history and mithology, loved the video!
I would like to see a video on the mythology of elves and dark elves, as well as more obscure creatures like the bunyip.
Elves come from Norse/Germanic/Old English tradition. Odin, Thor and the rest. As are goblins. This is also where four of the seven days of the week get their names.
@@infolord79 i know where they come form. I was asking for a video on the lore about them.
EA (electronic arts): We have a traitor. he has given all our secrets to humans.
I don't know if it's just the influence of D&D, but now thinking about it, but Rumpelstiltskin isn't your common fey creature, he's capable of turning straw into golden thread permanently. and its implied that deals unfulfilled with him can have very bad consequences. I'd say he's more akin to an archfey.
Maybe some kind of genie or even a minor god (Garl Glittergold springs instantly to mind)... either that or he's a high-level gnome transmutation wizard with a fetish for babies. Archfey is a good bet, though. Ol' Rumplestiltskin ticks all the Archfey boxes... except the ugliness. Most Archfey are SUPER vain and choose nothing but the most beautiful of forms when they change shape. This is not to say that a particularly clever or deceitful (or humble lol fat chance) Archfey wouldn't take on the form of a wizened gnome or goblin.
Some of our favorite Gobs are Styx, Gazlowe, and many others i am sure but those two are the only ones i personally know or can think the top of my head. More might come in time.
The spiderman villains do not count because they are not "Real" goblins.
BLIX from Legend
As jontron puts it, "goblins are still really, REALLY scary!"
"May be innocent, may be sweet...Not half as nice as rotting meat." Blix Goblin Prince
Yes, BLIX from LEGEND is an epic character - like how he always spoke in rhymes!
I love your videos! They are so descriptive and easy to understand. I would like to request a video, can you do a video describing the “Gravemind” from the Halo game series? it is a very interesting subject and may interest you...
I truly enjoy most if not all of your videos but this one was by far the best . All the gold
Rumplestiltskin scared the shit outta me when I was younger, you guys remember the movie where he had a motorcycle??
I see that you used the image of goblin chainwhirler from Magic the gathering, which reminds me how well they are represented on that card game including the feel of hastiness, dumbness and self sacrifice in order to do a burning effect towards the opponent. Magic the gathering represents many mythological creatures really well including their essential nature as portrayed on the myths from which they come from.
Red Caps appear in the 3rd season of the anime Overlord and, interestingly enough, they were portrayed as assassins.
Theyre basicly sneaky assassins in the pathfinder kingmaker videogame as well
Famous in Scotland
I just discovered your channel. You're very informative and entertaining. My favorite goblin is Jared, the Goblin King - don't hit me (R. I. P. David Bowie)
I love that movie! He made a great goblin king 😀 One of the Monty Python guys, Terry Jones, wrote a book on the Labyrinth goblins, The Goblin Companion, it's hilarious, highly recommend it. It has illustrations by Brian Fraud, the guy who designed those goblins for the movie. He has other books about fae lore too, his illustrations are truly amazing.
I absolutely love this episode. Thank you for whimsy and all your great tales
I love this stuff! Also, love the skyrim music in the background 👍
Trolls
Orcs
Goblins
What is the difference between all of them? Perhaps a video explaining the categories of these green hairy people?
Size.
Trolls = Massive.
Orcs = Roughly human sized, big.
Goblins = Not big.
In Dungeons and Dragons, Orcs, Trolls, and Goblins are actually unrelated. Trolls are related to Ogres and Giants, Orcs are related to Elves and Humans, and Goblins are related to Hobgoblins and Bugbears.
In the works of Tolkien, there is basically no difference between Orcs and Goblins (the few differences having been explained in the video) while Trolls were magically created living weapons (like the Dragons and Balrogs) from when all the Elves and weird demigods were fighting with each other over who sung the wrong notes in the song that made the world.
In folklore, Trolls and Goblins are also unrelated, with Trolls being mainly large solitary predators while Goblins tended to be more social and "civilized" sometimes even living in human dwellings and towns and co-operating with the locals (always in secret). Goblins were also considered faeries and related to Elves while trolls were not as far as I know. Trolls are from Norse mythology whereas the mythological origins of Goblins are a little more unclear (probably Greece though). I'm not sure if Orcs existed in folklore or if Tolkien made them up.
In World of Warcraft, Goblins and Trolls are related to each other while Orcs come from another planet entirely although they now all co-exist and co-operate in a single society.
I hope that helps.
Trolls live under bridges and ambush people as they cross, if captured the victim is eaten
Trolls live in their mother's basements, orcs and goblins live in the forest.
Trolls can regenerate missing limbs, so fire is the best way to end their life, or sunlight turns them to stone. The other two don't regenerate. Goblins are original creatures and small, Orcs are a hybrid of Goblins and Elves or Humans. If you mate an Orc and a full Human or Elf you get a Half-Orc.
I tbought my house was haunted with ghosts or infested w mice because you could here things moving around, sometimes even crashing w no evidence of anything broke or moved. Until one night i was downstairs and heard a door close slightly and i sneaked to the bottom of steps and put foot on step, it creaked and i heard small footsteps running lightly across the room. The pitter patter was very fast and ive been researching these creatures ever since.
Its truly amazing the cultures of the civilizations
I've watched a bunch of your videos today already just found this channel, you just earned a new subscriber
The jokes and side story tangents were pretty corny, but somehow I laughed anyway. Stuff like that adds character to your videos and sets you apart from other channels. I like it! 👍
On my dnd campaign, i plan to introduce an NPC that is actually 2 goblins in a trenchcoat. Gong to see how long it takes the players to notice.
I love goblins in World of Warcraft and they are one of my favorite races in the Horde
I love playing as goblins too. I have 3 of the little buggers -- Trixzie, my Shaman, Gadjet, Trixzie's daughter, a hunter who's favourite pet is her Hyena, and Eveie the Warlock.
I like how you gave personality to the video with the silly dialogues, feels very old school TH-cam. Well done and good video :)
I seen goblin and clicked now gotta watch the goblin slayer anime
Grammar
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Um shut it 😅😨🙇
Emoji
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Abridged ver for me ^□^
I didn't like that version
Of all goblins in pop culture the goblin hordes of the magic the gathering multiverse is among my favorites.
From the moogs of the plane of Rath to the hardened warriors and survivalists of the plane of Tarkir the goblins of the magic multiverse provides examples of all the archetypes you mentioned along with some truly unique and interesting twists on the goblin concept.
Among the the greatest examples of goblin kind of the multiverse we have Squee a goblin from the plane of dominaria. After being caught by the Phyrexians during their invasion of his home plane he was cursed with immortality so his captors could enjoy themselves by killing him over and over again.
As a card flavor text informs us squee doesn't view his condition as a curse and as a side effect he's also the oldest known goblin in the multiverse and for a short lived and accident prone race that's quite impressive.
*goblin slayer kicks the door down*
Goblin slayer: goblins
Enjoyed the story and humor. Thank you for the comic relief. Cheers.
Terry Pratchett wrote a pretty good portrayal of Goblins in his Discworld novel Snuff.
always loved the Spiderwick illustrations, it really expanded my love for fantasy creatures
The ending of this has me floored 😂
I think Guan Yu (Chinese saint) would be a good topic for you to cover as he has a decent story that would fit well with your channel. Plus it's a Chinese story and you don't currently have too many of those kinds of myths/ legends.
"Challenge them to a task they cannot complete"
*Challenges the goblin to kill itself*
The goblin: 👀👀
just too easy ... goblin ... clean up the mess i leave behind ... neverendingstory
I love watching these videos,but where I'm from when u put rice grains outside is so that bad spirits count the grains,by the time they're finished it's day light so they flee from the light,your videos r awesome love it.
12:59
me: How would you describe an orc?
friend: big, ugly, stupid, deformed monster. How so?
me: really? Than how do you explain THIS HOTTIE *shows picture of Azog* 💖💖💖
"an the gobble 'uns 'ull git ya ef ya do'nt watch out" James Whitcomb Riley
13:00 Goblin is simply a synonym for orc in the books and the distinction between them that exists in the Jackson's movies doesn't exist. Hobgoblins a name for large orcs, like the Uruk-hai, but they are still both goblins and orcs.
Yes, hobgoblin was going to be the name for larger orcs, but after a second research Tolkien discovered that hobgoblins weren't actually bigger or more powerful than goblins ("the statement that hobgoblins were 'a larger kind' is the reverse of the original truth") so the name got forgotten.
Everything is correct, I don't know why both terms are so confusing to many.
I had a character years back that has gained some renown in my local area named Badric. Badric started life as an idea in my head of a Goblin that thinks he's a Halfling. After a few sessions, that was abandoned and he became essentially a shenanigans character with insanely good luck. I don't mean he had feats that allowed for rerolling or anything like that. Whenever I was playing him, my dice rolled for the best possible outcome. I have since retired those dice, kept near his mini.
(They're absolutely magic, by the way. I took them out to use as a DM and TPKed the party five times in one session.)
Anyways, over the course of the campaign, he became a master chef, a pirate captain, a gypsy king, and a god, just to name a few of his minor accomplishments. Oh, and he killed a demon prince with back-to-back smites. Because Bard, that's why.
He has since made appearances in friend's campaigns as an NPC, usually a trickster deity messing with the party for bottle sessions.