The Three Goodkins

Based off of the folkloric tale of three children being brought into the wilderness to die by their parents, the three Goodkin are friends to children. They came back from the dead to scold and shame the families that abandoned them, and due to their remains not properly being interred- endlessly roam the wild moors and dark woods, in places where scared, lost children hide.

The three Goodkin are seen as defenders, protectors, and shelter children from harm, leading them safely back home when frightened. Bracelets with three small skulls, typically carved of a protective wood, are given to devout children as a safeguard. These signal to the three Goodkin that they are friends. These are typically removed upon the twenty first birthday. Their name is a corruption of ‘good children,’ and a common invocation is ‘fenny fen me,’ which is in of itself a corruption of ‘friends defend me.’

They are hostile to adults, and bode ill luck if seen by a lone traveller of age, but pose no harm to, and enjoy playing with children despite their macabre appearance, meant to scare them into compliance of following the Goodkin back home soundly.