Today's Word "kobold"
A haunting spirit
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kobold \KOH-bold\ (noun) - In German folklore, a haunting spirit, gnome, or goblin.
"The kobold wore the simple garments of his race: a long patchwork coat over practical leather clothes, his close-cropped black hair covered by a rough green hat, topped by a set of battered miner's goggles. He stood about average height for a kobold at four-foot-five, precisely twelve inches below the top of Shard's head." -- Jane Senese, 'Shard'
Cobalt, the metal, "the goblin of the mines," was named by those who had to work it after the kobold, since it caused them so much trouble, the ore being arsenical.
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