Boggles

Boggles are little people who live in open countryside and forest. They stand around three feet tall, are slightly built and agile. They are mischievous creatures and delight in causing minor mishaps or 'accidents.' If your churn of milk is spilt in the night you can bet it was a boggle. Rather than just stealing a cupful, he just cannot resist pushing the whole thing over as well out of sheer spite and beastliness.

Boggles are not totally base like their goblin cousins but they are untrustworthy and best avoided. Some boggles like to play tricks on men; offering non-existent pots of gold at the end of rainbows and then rifling through your pockets whilst you are distracted. There is almost always some catch or trick to these games and any sensible person would avoid any contact with these mischievous little people. 'Quite untrustworthy and rather smelly' is how Professor Barnebus Smoodge describes them in his famous treatise on all goblins and related species. Succinctly put, I thought.

This type of half-goblin is pretty harmless, generally speaking. Boggles can be found living in hedges, copses and open woodland. Broadly speaking they are solitary creatures (maybe its the stench of their unwashed clothes) although family groups of father mother and a handful of unsightly offspring are occasionally observed. Their ideal home is a cosy nest of damp leaves and bracken in a muddy hole scratched in the forest floor beneath a bushy tree or shrub for disguise and protection from the rain.

Cornelius Clifford, 14th of Sunmoon