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Robin Goodfellow
Robin Goodfellow Rob"in Good"fel`low A celebrated fairy; Puck. See Puck. --Shak.
Robin Goodfellow
Puck Puck, n. [OE. pouke; cf. OSw. puke, Icel. p[=u]ki an evil demon, W. pwca a hobgoblin. Cf. Poker a bugbear, Pug.] 1. (Medi[ae]val Myth.) A celebrated fairy, ``the merry wanderer of the night;' -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. --Shak. He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. --Drayton. 2. (Zo["o]l.) The goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]

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- be called The Goodfellows or Hobgoblin, in which Hob may substitute for Rob or Robin. This goes back to the character "Robin Goodfellow" and his name...
- Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Based on the Puck of English mythology and the púca...
- when Reginald Scot identified Robin Hood with the Germanic goblin "Hudgin" or Hodekin and ****ociated him with Robin Goodfellow. Maurice Keen provides a brief...
- legendary English outlaw Robin (comics), Batman's sidekick from DC comics Robin Goodfellow, common pseudonym of Puck in folklore Robin the Frog, Muppet nephew...
- as seen in one of Puck's monologues in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Robin Goodfellow is perhaps the most mischievous and most infamous of all his kind,...
- Kurtz respectively in The CW series The 100 and Riverdale, as well as Robin Goodfellow in the Netflix supernatural horror series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina...
- (daughter of civil rights activist Howard Thurman), Carol Freeland, Robin Goodfellow, and Dawn Rose. He had two daughters, Emily and Heather, and three...
- described as a household spirit of ambivalent nature, similar to Puck (Robin Goodfellow). The similar-sounding Heinzelmann (Heinzelmännchen) of Cologne is...
- Goodfellow is a surname with English, Scottish or Irish origins. Notable people with the surname include: Benjamin Goodfellow (1864–1946), British solicitor...
- anonymous book Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests (1628) Oberon is known as "Obreon" and is the father of the half-fairy Robin Goodfellow by a human...