Robin Goodfellow loves a good joke but is not one to make it hurtful.
He is a sort of hobgoblin.
Robin itself was a medieval nickname for the devil.
His mad pranks and merry jests, full of honest mirth and is a fit medicine for the melancholy...
The Puck of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a mischievous but friendly fairy.
With his flute made from a willow twig, he accompanies fairies on their moonlight dances.
In the earlier days, Puck is said to have been in-league with the Devil but he became more mischievous and fun as the years went by...
Robin Goodfellow was not only famous for shape-shifting and misleading travellers. He was also a helpful domestic sprite much like the brownies.
He would clean houses and such in exchange for some cream or milk. If offered new clothes, he'd stop cleaning.
"When I walk through the hills and sit by the quiet streams, I sometimes see a lonely figure sitting further up on the turf looking down at me.
It's old Puck, looking no worse for wear, and always with a tiny smile on his face.
He won't speak to me, but I know that he sees me.
Just from seeing his gaze distantly, I know what he's thinking: he sees the busses and trains and cars flying by, and he's amused at how quickly people sold the most important things in life away to the new wizards and their contraptions."
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