Little People

The little people is the fey term in Ireland.  Although for the purposes of my blog I will be including dwarves, goblins and hobbits as well as Leprechans into this segment.   Little people as the Irish refer to them are often tricksters and love to pull pranks and steal small items from the household.  Little people can be blamed if you loose something and for some reason it ends up in some odd place or another.  Leprechans have vast amounts of gold and according to legend store them at the end of rainbows.  Although it is impossible to get to the end of the rainbow....Well that's science another thing entirely.   Leprechans are very jealous of their gold and will do anything to protect it.   Leprechans are part of the history of Ireland and its folk tales.   Dwarves are little men that love gold, in some stories they are fierce small warriors with beards, in one story I read they had glowing moss in their beards that had to be carefully tended.  Goblins are some of the most hated of the little people, as to some accounts they steal livestock and even people, they are an ugly race overall.  They do seem to be cleaver, for an uncleaver goblin is a dead goblin by their thinking.  I read quite an interesting book about goblins once where the main character was a goblin himself.   Finally we have hobbits, hobbits are peace loving three feet tall humanoid creatures, who like to smoke pipes and have a fondness for music, they are the creation of J. R Tolkin and no one since him has made a story in which the hobbits are the main characters.