Goblin Yokai

**Goblin Yokai**, or **Goblette Yokai** for the female goblins, are small humanoid creatures who are known for living in dark caves and other dark areas. Not to be confused with Hobgoblin Yokai.

## Physical Appearance

Goblin Yokai are small, ugly creatures. They're humanoid in appearance with shades of green skin, pointy ears, pointy noses and, in some cases, warts on the faces. Some goblins have sharp fangs in their mouths. Some have tails and some can have large human-like ears. Goblin Yokai may have wings on their backs.

## Description

Goblin Yokai are small and weak compared to other yokai. But they make up for this by being clever and cunning. They may manufacture clever traps to trip up the unwary foe, or overwhelm them through sheer numbers. Which is why there are many goblin communities throughout the Hidden World and throughout the Surface World. Goblins are sensitive to sunlight unless they have mystic items that protects them from the sun. Either way, goblins in folklore and fantasy fiction are highly variable lot in both appearance and behavior. So humans have different ways to describe goblins. Especially when it comes to their features.

## Abilities

Here are the abilities that Goblin Yokai can have in their arsenal:

* Enhanced Craftsmanship
* Enhanced Dexterity
* Enhanced Endurance
* Enhanced Instincts
* Enhanced Intelligence (varies)
* Enhanced Thievery
* Enhanced Wits (varies)
* Trapping Intuition

### Types of Goblin

* Boggart Physiology
* Bwbachod Physiology
* Hitotsume Kozo Physiology
* Hobgoblin Physiology
* Knocker Physiology
* Kuri Physiology
* Redcap Physiology
	+ Redcap Lord Physiology
* Tatty Bogle Physiology
* Trotterkopf Physiology
* Yara Ma Yha Who Physiology

### Associations

* Bogeyman Physiology
* Classic Monster Physiology
* Fairy Physiology
	+ Fairy Magic
* Goblinoid Magic
* Gremlin Physiology
* Imp Physiology
* Mythic Physiology
* Pukwudgie Physiology
* Trickster

## Pop Culture

English Puritans later started using the word 'hobgoblin', originally meaning a friendlier variety of goblin, to mean 'demon', which probably is why Tolkien used the word 'hobgoblin' to mean 'a bigger goblin'. This usage of the word was then propagated, by Dungeons & Dragons. While annoying, goblins are also more likely to be comedic, bumbling, or simply harder to take seriously than their bigger relatives. A more recent trend in modern fantasy is to make them a merchant race with a unique gift for managing your money, or separating you from it. Another trend tends to give excessive interest on fire and explosives.

## Variations

### Boggart Yokai

Boggart Yokai are troublesome spirits from English folklore that can vary from a household spirit akin to a hobgoblin or a genius loci linked to swamps, fields or other localized areas.

### Bwbachod Yokai

Bwbachod Yokai are household brownie-goblin trickster spirits who represents or is associated with not only with playing tricks on others but also households of others if they are invoked.

### Hitotsume Kozo Yokai

Hitotsume Kozo are mischief-prone goblins from Japanese folklore that resemble ugly little humanoids with extremely long tongues and a single eye, they dress in the style of traditional monks and frequent lonely roads where they enjoy startling and scaring people but are otherwise harmless spirits who will leave their victims alone after the initial scare.

### Hobgoblin Yokai

Hobgoblin Yokai are mischievous spirits appearing as small, hairy little men who, like other house spirits, are often found within human dwellings doing odd jobs around the house while the family is lost in sleep.

### Knocker Yokai

Knocker Yokai are a type of goblin found in Welsh folklore, closely related to the gnomes known as Coblynau but more malicious in nature.

### Kuri Yokai

Kuri Yokai are malevolent demons from English folklore that haunts the shallow graves of those who died in the wilderness and are depicted as hideous goblin-like humanoids who lay in wait by the graves for unwary travelers, who they then attach themselves to and torment over the course of several days.

### Redcap Yokai

Redcap Yokai are malevolent, murderous goblins found in Border folklore. They are depicted as "a short, thickset old man with long prominent teeth, skinny fingers armed with talons like eagles, large eyes of a fiery red color, grisly hair streaming down his shoulders, iron boots, a pikestaff in his left hand, and a red cap on his head".

### Tatty Bogle Yokai

Tatty Bogle Yokai are a type of goblin from Scottish folklore that acts as a kind of bogeyman figure in fields, often disguising themselves as scarecrows they acted as a type of mischief-prone genius loci and loved to startle and scare anyone that ventured too near, especially during the hours of night.

### Trotterkopf Yokai

Trotterkopf Yokai are a type of familiar found in Pennsylvania Dutch folklore and resembles in many ways a goblin.

### Yara Ma Yha Who Yokai

Yara Ma Yha Who Yokai are vampiric creature from Australian mythology and a unique kind of Outback cryptid that while considered supernatural to many was believed to be a natural resident of the Outback by the native Aborigines.

## Life in the Hidden World

Goblin Yokai are usually working as criminals. They found themselves in illegal transactions and are largely responsible for the Hidden Black Market in the Hidden World. They're one of the worst scums in the Hidden World. They handle all kinds of illegal transactions like transporting unicorn horns and yeti fur coats. They also sell illegal mystic weapons and items that are prone to be dangerous for anyone who wields it. Though the Leprechauns also make deals with other criminal groups, they possess some code of ethic on what exactly they sell. Goblins, in the other hand, posses no such code. They do whatever they want and they follow their orders from their Goblin Kings who are the leaders of the many communities. Each community has one Goblin King and they are replaced every 30 years. But not all goblins are evil. Some work as merchants at the Hidden City marketplaces where they sell various products from around the world.

## Symbolism

Goblin Market/Symbolism: Symbols in this poem vary from the use of fruits, the moon, flowers, sisterhood, money and water. Firstly, even though, the title of the poem: Goblin Market seems self-explanatory, as we can instantly assume that this poem is about a fruit-market which is run by goblins this sounds like it's a poem which sounds like a fairy-tale/fantasy or maybe a story which focuses on little kids.