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HinzelmannHinzelmann (sometimes called Luring) is debatably the most famous kobold, hailing from the Black Woods of Germany. He often took the form of an child in red velvet, if he had to take any form whatsoever, but his true form (as he showed to a maid once, who instantly passed out) was that of a small child, around four years of age, stabbed and slashed with two swords. Hinzelmann was best known for haunting the castle Hudemuhlen, after being discovered in 1584. He haunted it for two years, at first shyly, but then he started conversing and jesting openly with all inhabitants of the house (including the master). Hinzelmann's friendly disposition was odd for a kobold. A kobold (or rather, one of many types of kobolds), history shows, was a child raised till an age of about four in complete isolation (seeing no light or images, hearing no conversation, etc.). The child, after it's isolation period, was slaughtered, and burned in a pit. This turned it into a tribal Robin Goodfellow, who could provide either good luck or bad depending on the manner in which it was treated. As depicted in Neil Gaiman's novel, American Gods, Hinzelmann was a benevolent "closet-vengeful-pedocidal(child-killer)" type of spirit, that protected and blessed the small Michigan town of Lakeside as long as it sacrificed, sometimes unknowingly, one child to him every ten years.
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