Goblins - The Story Behind the Creepy Little Men of European Folklore 

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 scary little men of American folklore work at E.A and Activision

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 the closest thing we have for mischievous Goblins in realife is Raccoons.

"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

"You know I'm something of a Goblin myself"

I've always wanted to make a DnD character that's actually 3 Goblins in a trenchcoat

0:19 _"...everybody's favourite mischievous, big nosed, greedy, gold hoarding creatures..."_ *shuffles uncomfortably*

Styx is an amazing character and a perfect example of a goblin.

"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.

"Do your own chores yah lazy lil goblins!" 😂😂😂😭

The picture you used for Redcaps is, fittingly enough, a well-known Magic: the Gathering card called Murderous Redcap.

“Down down underground. Down down down in Goblin Town. 🎤”

Goblin Slayer is watching this, taking notes.

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

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 🥰

5% of comments: "Wow, I learned something new today." 90% of comments: "Goblin slayer likes this." Remaining 5%: "Rimuru-sama makes female goblins THICC!!"

As a fellow goblin i say greetings to you my brother

Someone: uploads a video about information about Goblins Goblin Slayer: Interesting

Thank you so much for taking the time to make all of these videos! You're one of my favorite channels on RU-vid :)

That dude who always asking for this video finally got his wish

I love your videos! Thanks " To some it sounds like their younger siblings" 😂 I can't stop laughing cuz it's so true!

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 truly enjoy most if not all of your videos but this one was by far the best . All the gold

Will you do a future video on faeries, or the fair folk from celtic folklore and different cultures?

Goblins changed the settings on my alarm & that's why I'm late for work, honestly!! 🤣😂

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.

I've watched a bunch of your videos today already just found this channel, you just earned a new subscriber

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.

I love your videos man, thank you!

"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.

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'.

I absolutely love this episode. Thank you for whimsy and all your great tales

I felt like a five year old hearing a story again and it was honestly so much fun.

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!

love your videos man! Just subbed! never stop dude

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)

"cannot count past number two" Gaben is a goblin confirmed

Very interesting indeed - I enjoyed watching all the different kind of goblins. Thumbs up!

Nice video-I've always wondered about the cultural origins of goblins and other near-universal fantasy creatures. I'd love to see a similar video on orcs, since they're in the Lord of the Rings, Elder Scrolls, D&D, et cetera.

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...

“Dragon sickness... I’ve seen this before”

Great, I have been looking for goblins videos I love this and this stuff.

I love this channel! One of my favs! 💚

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

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.

Good vid, ty.....and props for adding the ref of Styx, one hell of a Stealth action game, and I love the way he breaks the 4th wall to shit talk you upon you dying in the 2nd game.....

Wish I could like multiple times! This video was gold!

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?

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 love this stuff! Also, love the skyrim music in the background 👍

This is what I fall asleep too only thing that works your voice thank you for being so calm

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.

I love how you used Skyrim ambience.

I enjoy your videos very much! Can you do one on the Trow?

awesome video! as always!!

Nobody: Goblin Slayer: Goblins!? Me: Ah shit..here we go again..

Goblins are my favourite fantasy race because of their rich history and mithology, loved the video!

A very interesting video! Thanks to you and your gribbledygrobs for making it

Enjoyed the story and humor. Thank you for the comic relief. Cheers.

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

*eye glows red* The only good goblin is one who stays in its hole.

Terrific entertainment i had a blast thank you!

Great video! Skyrim soundtrack at the end is so nice

haha - you sound like a DM when you impersonate these Goblins :D

We repel goblins in the USA because our currency is not backed by gold.

I've been watching your videos for awhile and I noticed some of the pictures you put in your videos are from Smite which I've been playing for over 4 years. Would you make more videos for more of the Egyptian Gods like Anhur, Khonsu, Set, Horus, Bes, Babi, Nekhbet, Sekhmet, Nut, and Shu. The Egyptians have been my favorite for years.

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.

13:00 Uh no Goblins Orcs and Trolls are all different subspecies of creatures that were originally beautiful and kind. These subspecies grew out of the twisting of their minds by Sauron and Morgoth who tricked some of the people of these races into survitude which twisted their appearances. Giants became Trolls. Elves became Orcs. Dwarves became Goblins. This is well established in the Tolkien Spirit Guide and the notes of Tolkien's works.

Noticed that you never mentioned the greatest goblin of all, David Bowie. The swag of his area shall not shine on you today. #Areaology

Thoroughly enjoyed this video! 😋

I really enjoyed it your video x

Goblin Slayer wants to know your location

Its truly amazing the cultures of the civilizations

This was fantastic!

This video is helping me out a lot. Im in the ball jointed doll hobby and I have this beautiful dark red doll woth big ears a year ago. I knew I wanted to do some sort of fantasy theme. I just didnt know how to go about it. Thank you

I like focusing on realistic theories & as such I theorize that elves, orcs, humans, & such are actually related.

I would like to see a video on the mythology of elves and dark elves, as well as more obscure creatures like the bunyip.

:D I like your sense of humor and U have talent, if you can make this dialogue, in the end of the video, sounds so funny and like a professional actor's play :)

Thanks for the vid sir.

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.

Was that the art from MTG Murderous Redcap? Love it.

thanks for the short documentary about maxmoefoepokemon!

Making goblin characters, needed info, so thank you for this video!

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've got the best deals anywhere!"

Lovely. Really, outstanding!

jaajaj love the end keep up the good work

So a redcap is some sort of hemogoblin? Who would have thought.

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.

Awesome! Finally a good recommendation from RU-vid. Subscribed. Now give me gold!

Love the video !

Goblin Slayer: Did someone say goblins!? (HEAVY BREATHING)

"May be innocent, may be sweet...Not half as nice as rotting meat." Blix Goblin Prince

Interesting stuff, bonus points for the Elder Scrolls music.

Great video, ty

As jontron puts it, "goblins are still really, REALLY scary!"

Hob is an ancient English name for the devil. “ Old Hob” was another common name for Satan.

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.

Love it great job, it had me laughing hard 👍🏻😇