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Origins in folklore

One fabled origin for goblins is in Britain. They then began to spread all through the UK from there they sneaked aboard ships. Where they sailed to France then rapidly spread all over Europe [2][3] They have no homes, being nomadic, dwelling temporarily in mossy cracks in rocks and tree roots.

Sir Walter Scott in his Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft ascribed gnomes, kobolds and goblins, along with Scottish bogles, to all correspond with a caricature of the Sami people.