- Hobbididance
A Hobbididance, or Hoberdidance, was a malevolent sprite mentioned in the traditional English
morris dance . It was the name of one of the fiends inShakespeare 's "King Lear ":"
text=Poor Tom hath been scared out of his good wits: bless thee, good man’s son, from the foul fiend! Five fiends have been in poor Tom at once; of lust, as Obidicut; Hobbididance, prince of dumbness; Mahu, of stealing; Modo, of murder; and Flibbertigibbet, of mopping and mowing; who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women. So, bless thee, master!
sign=King Lear, Act IV, Scene IReferences
*"Hobbididance". "Oxford English Dictionary". Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.
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