Household deity
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A household deity is a deity or spirit that protects the home, looking after the entire household or certain key members. It has been a common belief in paganism as well as in folklore across many par
Early-20th-century Slavic cult image of a Domovoy, the household deity, progenitor of the kin, in Slavic paganism
Shrine of the household deities lares in Pompeii, showing the offering altar and a niche for votive images
Kobold
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Kobold is a generic name for a household spirit in German folklore.
Household deity
…Many European cultures retained house spirits into the modern period. Some examples of these include: Brownie (Scotland and England) or Hob (England) / Kobold (Germany) / Duende y Trasgu (Spain and Portugal) / Goblin / Hobgoblin Domovoy (Slavic…
The kobold of Hildesheim―Illustrated by William A. McCullough, Nymphs, Nixies and Naiads (1895)
![Household spirit, kobold, or gütgen―engraving by Thomas Cross, Sr. (fl. 1632–1682), frontispiece to Praetorius (1668) [1666] Anthropodemus Plutonicus.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Praetorius%281668%29-p0000-08hau%C3%9Fm%C3%A4nner-kobolde-g%C3%BCtgen.jpg/500px-Praetorius%281668%29-p0000-08hau%C3%9Fm%C3%A4nner-kobolde-g%C3%BCtgen.jpg)
Household spirit, kobold, or gütgen―engraving by Thomas Cross, Sr. (fl. 1632–1682), frontispiece to Praetorius (1668) [1666] Anthropodemus Plutonicus.
![Plant-people, Alraun (mandrake) ―engraving by Thomas Cross, Sr. (fl. 1632-1682), frontispiece to Praetorius (1668) [1666] Anthropodemus Plutonicus.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Praetorius%281668%29-p0000-15Pflantzleute-Alraunen.jpg/500px-Praetorius%281668%29-p0000-15Pflantzleute-Alraunen.jpg)
Plant-people, Alraun (mandrake) ―engraving by Thomas Cross, Sr. (fl. 1632-1682), frontispiece to Praetorius (1668) [1666] Anthropodemus Plutonicus.
Hinzelmann was a kobold who haunted Hudemühlen Castle.―Willy Pogány illustr. (1912), "The Little White Feather" in The Fairies and the Christmas Child ed. Gask