hobgoblin Quotes

“Hobberdy Dick is the hobgoblin who protects Widford Manor and has for countless years. ”

“A hobgoblin is charged with the protection of an unloving Puritan family who come to live at an English manor in 1652.”

“Hobberdy Dick (a hobgoblin of a sort and a protector of the manor itself), the story gives us, at one point, a sweeping dale-sized overview of rural Oxfordshire at a time when a breach between the old ways and the new, Puritan ways were eschewing knowledge in its different forms.”