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A Cofgod (plural Cofgodas ("cove gods")) was an household god in Anglo-Saxon paganism related to the German kobold and equivalent to the Roman penates.^[1] It is generally accepted that the English hob and Scottish brownie are the modern survival of the cofgod.^[2]

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• "Cove-Gods", An Other Dictionary: Tribal English. Accessed 13 April 2008.
• Dowden, Ken (2000). European Paganism: The Reallities of Cult from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415120349.

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