So this year I've already made a video on Halloween in general.

I've also made a video on vampires as being a monstrous version of the hierarchy.

And so based on the poll that I put out on Tritter to find out which monsters people wanted,

it seems like the Imps and Goblins and that kind of monster won out, which is good

because in a way it will show us the flip side of the vampire. If the vampire is the monster

of hierarchy, then these imps, these goblins, you know, these pucks, these types of these types of

earthy creatures are in fact a symbol of the opposite.

It could be the symbolism of the earth, we could call it, or the symbolism of potentiality.

So we're going to look at that and see what we can get out of it.

Music This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. And so it's a little difficult to separate some of these creatures,

because although in some stories they will have separate characteristics,

trolls, imps, hobgoblins, pucks, what are the other words?

But even things like trolls, like fairies, or elves,

sometimes take on the characteristics of these kind of earthy creatures. For example, the elf in

northern mythology, you know, the type that we find in toking is quite different than the Christmas elf, for example.

The Christmas elf acts more like a Robin Goodfellow or a puck or a hobgoblin than they do act as

those elves. So we have to try to be careful about the naming and rather look at the characteristics

and see what they show us. And in terms of symbolism, this symbolism is going to help people also understand how

sometimes the same symbols can manifest in different characteristics, opposites of the same category.

And so in these kind of earthly monsters,

what you get is the symbolism of the harnessing

of potentiality, you could call it.

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