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  Robin Goodfellow
Robin Goodfellow was the nickname of the Devil in England during the late Middle Age, and especially during the Renaissance.
In art he was depicted as a satyr, half man and half goat, with goat legs, horns and ears, wearing a beard and moustache, nude, with a broom in one hand and a torch in the other, and showing big genitalia and his phallus erected.
[Robin Goodfellow was a] "drudging fiend," and merry domestic fairy, famous for mischievous pranks and practical jokes.
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 Robin Goodfellow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robin Goodfellow in English folklore is a euphemistic personification of a half-tamed, troublesome fairy or hob-goblin, a prankster who is the domesticated aspect of Puck.
The children's theater play Robin Goodfellow by Aurand Harris is a retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream from the point of view of Puck.
The earliest reference to 'Robin Goodfellow' cited by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1531.
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 Robin Goodfellow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Robin helped explain the alternate reality theory and also helped Buffy come to grips with how her double was a cold, emotionless fighter, pointing out that she had been through things that the Buffy of our reality had not.
Robin was stunned by the suggestion, warning Steve constantly that they had no right to meddle in such an affair but Steven insisted and Robin reluctantly agreed but not before laying ground rules on what they could and could not do in that reality.
Robin's first stop was the high school, where he gave Catherine, stuck in the trophy, a note from her double berating her for how she had treated her own daughter.
www.wandererverse.com /Wanderer/Bio/Robin.htm   (3403 words)

  
 Puck Through The Ages
Being misled by a Puck (sometimes the legends speak of Pucks, Pookas and Robin Goodfellows in the plural) was known in the Midlands as being "pouk-ledden."
In these ballads, Robin Goodfellow is the son of Oberon, the fairy king, and a mortal woman.
Robin's trademark laugh is "Ho Ho Ho!" One 1628 ballad song may have written by Shakespeare's drinking buddy, the great Jacobean (in the reign of James I, the king after Elizabeth I) playwright Ben Jonson.
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 Introduction - Robin Hood Loxley Little John Hathersage legend outlaw Barnsdale Nottingham crusades chivalry
The Encyclopedia Britannica says, "The authentic Robin Hood ballads were the poetic expression of popular aspirations in the north of England during a turbulent era of baronial rebellions and agrarian discontent.
Robin Hood otherwise known as Robert Dore of Wadsley was outlawed for taking part in the Peasants Revolt.
For centuries the mythical Green Man had been celebrated in the spring rites along with Robin Goodfellow and the later fictional romantic figures of the French shepherd and shepherdess Robin and Marian.
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 Fairy Ring Oracle - Robin Goodfellow - 7th Card - Aeclectic Tarot Forum
Robin Goodfellow is a quite well known mischievous English Fairy who is found in Shakespearer's A Midsummer's Night Dream where he is also known as Puck.
Robin Goodfellow is a well known trickster, appearing as a pony, hare, or a will o' the wisp, he is never seen between Halloween (Samhain), and the vernal equinox.
Among Shakespeare's Puck Robin Goodfellow is suggested as synonymous with the horned God Cernunnoos, or Robin Hood as a spirit or God of the forest.
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 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Green Man, Robin Goodfellow, Puck, Pan | Green Man Pan horned god ...
Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, Robin is a cognate of the archetype, the
Robin Goodfellow’s flower and he might direct a snake to bite you, especially if you destroy it.
Robin Goodfellow is an English imp, a trickster from the woods.
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 Mythic Imagination Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Robin Goodfellow is the archetypal prankster and trickster of Britain.
Robin Hood I believe, then, is a reminiscence of an early departmental deity or godling associated with afforested places, and as such his festival would be celebrated at the seasons of vernal growth.
Whether we see Robin Goodfellow as an elf, a fairy, a hob-goblin, or an ancestral guardian of the land, we can be sure that he was at one time recognised as a far more powerful being than we can ever imagine today.
www.mythicjourneys.org /newsletter_oct06_matthews.html   (1311 words)

  
 Robin Goodfellow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Robin zealously attacks the threatening snowman/scarecrow rope guy who is actually bigger than he is right now.
Robin isn't thrilled to have a dog coat, but he doesn't try to get out of it either, so here's hoping he learns to tolerate it.
Robin is having some serious zzzzzs, and growling in his sleep.
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 Wiscasset Middle School Drama Club To Present "Robin Goodfellow"
Robin, a trickster in his own right, has heard that Oberon is very fond of practical jokes.
Robin feels certain that their partnership would be a good one.
Robin's job is to secure the child for Oberon in whatever joking manner he can devise.
wiscassetnewspaper.maine.com /2003-03-27/wms_drama_club.html   (516 words)

  
 Robin Goodfellow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Robin was outgrowing his old puppy collar so we got him a new one today.
Robin needs to meet Chet Baker and learn the fine art of posing casually and not appearing overeager for the audience.
Robin is bored with the DVD selection and decides to take a nap.
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 The mad merry pranks of Robin Goodfellow
"Robin Goodfellow, alias Pucke, alias Hobgoblin, in the creed of ancient superstition," says Bishop Percy, "was a kind of merry sprite, whose character and achievements are recorded in this ballad, and those well-known lines of Milton's L'Allegro, which the antiquarian Peck supposes to be owing to it:--
One is entitled, "Robin Goodfellow, his Mad Pranks and Merry Jests.
Full of honest Mirth; and is a fit Medicine for Melancholy." Another, "The second part of Robin Good-fellow, commonly called Hob Goblin; with his Mad Pranks and Merry Jests." These were reprinted by the Percy Society, edited by Mr.
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 Robin "Puck" Goodfellow - Message Board - ezboard.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Puck was named Robin after her father, Robin Goodfellow, a Muggle who was named Robin by his own parent's sick sense of humor.
Robin - Puck is very much a Daddy's girl, and has been all her life.
Robin yawned loudly as she dozed in an arm chair in her common room.
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 Robin Goodfellow -- 40 (3): 360 -- Rheumatology
Robin Goodfellow -- 40 (3): 360 -- Rheumatology
Robin's use of needles in gout is confined to aspiration of
Robin imagines, on whether you are a patient or a Health Authority
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 Elisabeth Riba: Roleplaying characters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Robin Fellowes was an orphaned boy actor who bore sufficient resemblance to Elizabeth to occasionally act as her decoy.
Now, under the name of Robin Goodfellow, he is Titania's ambassador to the English court, keeping his human past a closely guarded secret.
Goodfellow is a major reason why so much of my recent reading has been Elizabethan.
www.osmond-riba.org /lis/rpg.htm   (907 words)

  
 Robin Goodfellow, Consultant & Trainer in Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems
Robin gained a 2.1 Special Honours Degree in Chemistry from Bristol University.
He left Unisys in 1989, after a total of 19 years, and set up on his own to provide top quality education, training, consultancy, advice, and project management in the manufacturing and MRPII marketplace.
Manufacturing Business Excellence, A Consultancy run by Robin Goodfellow provides Education, Training, Project Management and Consultancy in MRPII Techniques; and is an independant member of the Manufacturing and Logistics Group.
www.manubex.com /author.htm   (521 words)

  
 Robin Goodfellow -- 41 (7): 839 -- Rheumatology
Robin is beginning to feel old, for in the last month
Robin does not fancy an embrace from the Chairman of the General
It is the first time that Robin has noted such an undercurrent.
rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/41/7/839   (695 words)

  
 Robin Goodfellow
For Robin is green in the green of the spring, and
But Robin is king of the greenwood and the white stag he commands
And any who mean to dishonor the green is left in Robin's hands
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 Robin Goodfellow -- 42 (9): 1131 -- Rheumatology
Robin Goodfellow -- 42 (9): 1131 -- Rheumatology
Robin, of course, has been saying for decades.
Robin is prepared to concede the growing readership of this
rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/42/9/1131   (731 words)

  
 Robin Goodfellow
When Percy wrote his book in the mid eighteenth century the folklore he was saving for posterity was already ancient.
Robin Goodfellow was another name for Puck, or Pook, a kind of mischevious nature-spirit who would furtively curdle milk, interfere with the fermentation of ale, mislead night-time travellers, sexually harrass maidens and cause other such harmless trouble.
These spirits lived in the wild places and were famous for lusting after human women, known variously as satyrs, incubii, dusii and fig-fauns.
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 robin definition - Dictionaries - ninemsn Encarta
Search for "robin" in all of ninemsn Encarta
European songbird: a small thrush, the adult male of which has a reddish-orange breast and head.
bird with reddish breast like robin: a bird with a reddish breast that is similar to the European or North American robin, especially one of numerous Australian species
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 THE RETURN OF ROBIN GOODFELLOW
My name is Robin Goodfellow, I was born in the year of our Lord 1328 and I am on a most urgent mission."
The Governor was a little taken aback at being called Your Majesty, but he regained his composure and motioned to the chair on the opposite side of the table.
Alright, Robin Goodfellow, any information I can give, advice, ships… anything I can offer to help, is yours.
www.inisfail.com /~kaptingavrin/return-of-robin-goodfellow.html   (835 words)

  
 The League of Robin Goodfellow
It is your responsibility to know how the League is run and to be familiar with the few rules contained in the charter.
In addition to this educational goal, we strive to bring joy and a smile to the faces of fair goers of all ages, especially those who have not forgotten how to believe.
During the year of its inception, The League of Robin Goodfellow will be governed by a Court of three core members: the Court Mistress, the Court Sage and a Court Advisor to be appointed.
www.leagueofrobingoodfellow.com /leaguegoodfellowcharter.htm   (1645 words)

  
 League of Robin Goodfellow Guild Apparel t-shirt and apparel from Zazzle.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Freelancing for Christ - Short Story Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Once the transformation was complete, it spread its ebony wings and plunged headlong deep into the building's fl heart.
The other cohorts of Robin Goodfellow had already arrived, although Robin himself was nowhere to be seen.
Every creak and groan emitted by the decaying building prompted a fresh round of uneasy glances exchanged between those dreading the arrival of Robin Goodfellow.
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 Santa, Last of the Wild Men
Hood began as Robin Wode, Wode or Hode, also known as Robin Goodfellow.
The only acquaintance most of us have with Robin Goodfellow is in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream as Puck, a leaf-clad scamp.
This woodcut of Robin from The Mad Pranks shows Robin as the ultimate Wild Man. You see, in an even earlier woodcut how Wode was pictured before he became our less hair-ied Robin Hood.
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 Vinod's Blog:Robin Goodfellow: Sources of Euro Post Modernism
(via DenBeste.nu) Robin Goodfellow has this fascinating article on the roots of European Post Modernism.
These ideas were extended to embrace the notions of "might makes wrong" and "weakness makes right".
I'm not well versed enough on the recent cultural/intellectual history of W. Europe to spar with Robin but the case laid out holds water.
www.vinod.com /blog/News/RobinGoodfellowSourcesofE.html   (523 words)

  
 Viscount Padraig Robin Goodfellow
After his beheading by Chavalier, suffice to say Puck returned to Ireland, head under his arm and uncertain about his future...
Viscount Padraig Robin Goodfellow shares a past with the puck known as Maia's Puck, who met his end by the sword of Chavalier.
We pick up his story in the tavern after a hard day of drinking with the fair Giselle, when by chance he happened to make rude comment towards Cabot Kerbouchard.
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 Robin Goodfellow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Update: The PBS Newshour website has the transcript of an enlightening interview concerning al qaeda and how it operates.
The space bats returned the message I left on their answering machine and have told me that "Robin Goodfellow" is a clue in today's New York Times crossword puzzle.
So, to save you guys time, "Robin Goodfellow" is an alias for "Puck" of Shakespeare fame.
aeglos.blogspot.com /2002_10_20_aeglos_archive.html   (5281 words)

  
 The League of Robin Goodfellow - Frappr Maps
The League of Robin Goodfellow - Frappr Maps
The League is a Faerie costuming and fan group with members throughout the USA.
Contact the The League of Robin Goodfellow administrators
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 Best evidence for a modern miracle? - TheologyWeb Campus
As an agnostic, on the other hand, I remain open to the possibility of miracles.
Last edited by Robin Goodfellow : December 15th 2005 at 06:01 PM.
(Robin: Bill is right; I don't have much interest in the Mary apparations...I don't care if they are real or not...)
www.theologyweb.com /campus/showthread.php?t=67288   (2794 words)

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