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Lubber fiend
The best known abbey lubber tale is that of Friar Rush.
Lubber fiend in literature
The lubber fiend appears also in The Red Axe by S. R. He can therefore be seen as a modern-day lubber fiend.
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lubber fiend
lubber fiend [Cf. lubber n. 1 c.] A beneficent goblin supposed to perform some of the laborious work of a household or farm during the night; a ‘Lob-lie-by-the-fire’. Also transf.1632 Milton L' Allegro 110 Tells how the drudging Goblin swet, To ern his Cream-bowle duly set,..Then lies him down the L...
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Friar Rush
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Lubber fiend
Ship of Fools (satire)
References
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Charles Harold Herford, Studies in the Literary Relations of England and Germany
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lubber
▪ I. lubber, n. (ˈlʌbə(r)) Forms: 4 lobre, lobur, 6 lober, loubber, lubbo(u)r, lub(b)ur, luber, lubbarre, 6–7 lubbar, 6– lubber. [The form may possibly belong to an adoption of OF. lobeor swindler, parasite, agent-n. f. lober to deceive, sponge upon, mock; but if so the sense has been altered by ass...
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Hobgoblin
Literature
In the poem "L'Allegro" (1645) by John Milton a domestic hobgoblin or brownie, known as a Lubbar Fend (or lubber fiend) and described as strong In a 1684 hymn Bunyan couples the hobgoblin with "a foul fiend", as two monstrous beings who try (and fail) to "daunt the Pilgrim's spirit".
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lob
▪ I. † lob, n.1 Obs. [OE. lobbe wk. fem.; cf. loppe, lop n.] A spider.c 1000 Lamb. Ps. lxxxix. 10 (Bosw.) Ure ᵹær swa swa lobbe [Vulg. sicut aranea] oððe rynge beoþ asmeade. a 1325 Prose Psalter xxxviii. 15 Þou madest his soule to stumblen as a lob [Vulg. sicut araneam]. Ibid. lxxxix. 10 Our yeres s...
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Hob (folklore)
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Hobbit
Hobgoblin
Lubber fiend, also known as "Lob".
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Fenodyree
Joseph Train, and later John Rhys among others have pointed out that the fenodyree is akin to Lob Lie-By-The-Fire in English folklore, also known as "Lubber Fiend" from Milton.
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Am Fear Liath Mòr
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Brenin Llwyd
Wild man
Lubber fiend
References
Aos Sí
Fairies
Fantasy creatures
Irish folklore
Irish legendary creatures
Scottish legendary
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List of legendary creatures (L)
vampire
Lou Carcolh (French) – Snake-mollusk hybrid
Loup-garou (French) – Werewolf
Loveland frog (American Folklore) (Ohio) – Cryptid, Humanoid Frog
Lubber fiend (English) – House spirit
Luduan (Chinese) – Truth-detecting animal
Lugat (Albanian) – Vampire
Luison (Guaraní) – Werewolf | Cadaver-eating dog
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List of giants in mythology and folklore
Buggane
Colbrand
Cormoran
Ettins
Galehaut
Goram and Vincent
Jack the Giant Killer
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack o' Legs
Jack-in-Irons
Little John
Lubber fiend
Ogre
Orgoglio
Penhill Giant
Thunderdell
Tom Hickathrift
William of Lindholme
Yernagate
Fennoscandian folklore and mythology
Finnic mythologies
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