Lucksprite Lucksprites were sentient beings found on the Forest Moon of Endor . According to Ewok belief , the creatures were responsible for the good or ill fortune of every being on the moon . In practice , a luck sprite could indeed affect someone ' s luck via blasts of iridescent energy projected from a prehensile tentacle growing from the top of its head . Lucksprites were otherwise humanoid in shape , although their legs were much shorter than their arms , and their heads were large in proportion to the rest of their body . Other key physical features included large , pointed ears and drooping eyelids . The creatures were divided into two camps , those who caused good luck , and those who brought on bad luck . Lucksprites could take great pleasure in using their chance - changing abilities . One lucksprite made a nuisance of itself in Bright Tree Village around 3 ABY . Because the Ewok Wicket Wystri Warrick was having difficulty preparing for his warrior ' s test , an ordeal designed to test his aptitude to enter that profession , Warrick ' s friend Teebo secured the services of a lucksprite . Little did he know that it was a " bad " lucksprite ; the creature foiled Warrick ' s chances and sent the Ewok into melancholy . Nevertheless , Warrick ' s friends forced the lucksprite to admit its meddling to their saddened comrade . An arachnid creature attacked during the confession , and the lucksprite did its best to prevent Warrick from overcoming the new obstacle . Nevertheless , the Ewok prevailed , causing the lucksprite to enter a depression of its own . Biology and appearance . Lucksprites were sentient humanoid beings , with two arms , two legs , and a head . The arms were long and wiry , considerably lengthier than the short , thin legs that stood the beings roughly 0 . 66 meters from the ground . Two four - fingered hands were attached to each arm , and two long , narrow feet to each leg . These limbs surrounded the torso and abdomen , which converged in a single squat , round mass . Atop the lucksprite ' s long , thin neck sat an oversized head , wider than it was tall and with no appreciable chin . A broad , thick - lipped mouth stretched from one side of the face to the other , revealing a red interior and pink tongue when opened . Above the mouth sat a wide , oblong nose with perpetually flared nostrils . This rested below two wide - set , yellow eyes , which peered from beneath droopy lids . Both sides of the face were flanked by two huge , triangular ears with pink interiors . In at least one case , the back of these sensory organs and the rest of the lucksprite ' s skin was green . Growing from the top of the head , each lucksprite had a fat , tentacular appendage whose prehensility allowed the lucksprite to move it at will . This organ shot bolts of good or bad luck — depending on its owner ' s proclivities — that affected their target ' s performance of various tasks . These salvos of serendipity appeared as clouds of golden sparkles . Each discharge of this energy was accompanied by a " zap " sound . Society and culture . Lucksprites were divided into two groups : good lucksprites and bad lucksprites . Each type had the ability to bestow both flavors of luck on other beings , but the lucksprites strongly preferred one or the other depending on their individual temperaments . This could prove either a help or hindrance to the target depending on whether the lucksprite conveyed helpful or harmful fortune . In some instances , a lucksprite might agree to work for someone , bestowing luck as the patron requested . Lucksprites could take great pride in such work , cuddling up to their employers and laughing as they fulfilled their duties . Should a lucksprite ' s target manage to overcome the weal or woe bestowed upon them — succeeding in a task that a bad lucksprite attempted to curse , for example — the lucksprite could grow despondent at the perceived failure . Lucksprites also had the ability to teleport , a tactic they occasionally employed to avoid angry victims of their luck - inducing abilities . Lucksprites were capable of learning and speaking Ewokese . Their large mouths expressed a wide variety of emotions , including smiling or frowning . In the folklore of the Ewoks of the Forest Moon of Endor , lucksprites were viewed as powerful beings who presided over the good or ill fortune of all creatures on the moon . At least one lucksprite wore a tunic over tights . This being tied this ensemble with a rope belt . The lucksprite hid its head tentacle under a pointed cap and could wrap itself in a cloth to appear as a sack , leaving only the eyes to peer out and betray its true nature . History . By 3 ABY , lucksprites had entered Ewok legend . Sometime around that year , the young Ewoks of Bright Tree Village were taking skills tests to determine their aptitude for their chosen professions . To help his friend , Wicket Wystri Warrick , who was practicing for the test to become a warrior , the Ewok Teebo secured the services of a lucksprite for the would - be warrior ' s test day . During a practice session , the lucksprite blessed Warrick with good fortune : not only did the Ewok fire three arrows directly into a target , he also split the target — and the tree on which it hung — in two . The day of Warrick ' s skills test , however , the lucksprite showed its true colors . When the Ewok used a pole to vault up to a tree , the pole snapped , sending him tumbling . When Warrick swung on a vine to grab a doll from a tree , the lucksprite zapped a spiny creature nearby so that the Ewok would grab it instead ; the pain caused Warrick to fall from the trees , dislodge a fallen log , and topple the judge s ' platform where his elders were observing his performance . The blunder cost Warrick his chance to be a warrior ; in fact , his village chief , Chirpa , assigned him to be an apprentice bordok stable sweeper instead . The lucksprite then admitted to Warrick ' s friends — Teebo , Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka , and Latara — that it was , in fact , a " bad " lucksprite . The creature then disappeared on the back of a bordok - driven cart , a vehicle that it caused to nearly run the Ewoks over as it passed . Teebo tracked the lucksprite down and brought it to confront Warrick at the Cavern of Broken Dreams , where the despondent Ewok had gone to sulk . When an arachnid creature emerged from the cave and pursued Kneesaa , the lucksprite got up to its antics again : it shot Kneesaa with ill fortune to make her drop her lasso , with which she hoped to capture the creature . Teebo and Latara attacked the mischievous creature , but the lucksprite simply teleported out of harm ' s way . Kneesaa , meanwhile , fell into the arachnid ' s web , which stretched across a deep chasm . With Kneesaa in danger , Warrick snapped out of his stupor . He snatched Kneesaa from the web and put her on his shoulders . As he crossed a tightrope back to the ledge , the lucksprite shot the rope and snapped it , forcing Warrick to grab the rope and swing across . Teebo sneaked up behind the lucksprite and covered it with its own hat , preventing it from using its luck - bestowing tentacle and from seeing the goings - on . Without the meddlesome lucksprite ' s interference , Warrick swung to safety , destroyed the web with a large stone , and caused the arachnid to plummet into the canyon . Afterward , the bad lucksprite was depressed to have been foiled . It claimed that no Ewok warrior had ever managed to break its bad luck , but somehow Wicket W . Warrick had . Warrick , cheered to hear that he had succeeded where others had failed , offered the lucksprite a job as an apprentice stable sweeper . Behind the scenes . Michael Dubil wrote the first and only " Star Wars " story to feature a lucksprite to date , the " " episode " Just My Luck . " The cartoon first aired on November 22 , 1986 , during the of " Ewoks " . Although the lucksprite has several lines in the episode , the voice actor who played him was uncredited . Dubil ' s story reveals little about the background of the lucksprite it features . However , " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " includes an entry for the creatures , explaining that they not only have the power to alter other beings ' luck , but that the Ewoks believe them to be responsible for the chance of every being on Endor . Later sources imply that lucksprites and several other species arrived on Endor from offworld . One such work , the roleplaying supplement " Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds " , lists only Ewoks and Yuzzums as native to Endor , while the article " Castaways of Endor " also includes Duloks as indigenous . According to these sources and the roleplaying article " Endor and the Moddell Sector " , most sentient species on Endor had survived crash landings induced by the nearby gas giant ' s massive gravity shadow and shield of space debris .