The name originally referred to that of folklore character Robin Goodfellow but has grown to be defined as a different species of goblin or fairy

Robin Goodfellow in English folklore is a euphemistic personification of a half-tamed, troublesome elf or hob-goblin, a prankster who is the domesticated aspect of Puck.

Shakespeare refers to him in A Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1.

Either I mistake your shape and making quite,
Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite
Called Robin Goodfellow...
Those that Hob-goblin call you, and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck.
The earliest reference to 'Robin Goodfellow' cited by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1531

After Meyerbeer's successful opera Robert le Diable(1831), neo-medievalists and occultists began to apply the name Robin Goodfellow to the Devil, with appropriately extravagant imagery

The character originates in German folklore.

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