Goblin in the Lost Dutchman's Mine

MY SKETCH'S MANY INSPIRATIONS: I found an old rusted mining lantern from the 1870s in the back storage of an old antique shop in Apache Junction. A century-and-a-half-year-old rock pick hammer from the 1880s was located by my wife out in Wilcox. We acquired both. Meanwhile my medically retired US Navy SEAL buddy and I figured out where the actual, buried by Apaches for over 150 years, entrance to Jacob Waltz' (c. 1810–1891) mine entrance was, from the maps gathered by the late former Arizona Attorney General Robert K. Corbin and his wife. We found the eroded, fallen, shattered remnants of the Sombrero rock formation in a box canyon in direct line of sight of the Weaver's Needle spire. Then I found old rusted mining chains out in an abandoned mine shaft near the Peralta Trail on the southeaster flank of the primary mountain. Remnants of solid oak shoring as well. The tarantula and the rattlesnake were pets of mine.

While exploring another mine tunnel in the Peralta trail flank of the Superstition Mountain which was chock full of Mexican little brown bats and a leaf-nosed insect eater, I got a very good gander at the texture of the soft powdery soil mixed with bat guano. I observed both the chipped rock in the walls and the scalloped Corning "globe" glass panels of the old lamp.

ABOUT GOBLINS: Historically, goblins from medieval Germany, Italy, Eastern Europe and Muskovy were described as a mixed assortment of pig traits merged into the human form with additional lizard, canine, feline, troll, and dwarf human anatomical traits added in who were living in caves and mines. Goblins are depicted as strange, but civilized, humanoids. They were described in French medieval literature as both hairy and scaly and squatted and knuckle-walked like chimpanzees.

FROM WIKIPEDIA: A goblin is a monstrous creature that appears in the folklore of multiple European cultures, first attested in stories from the Middle Ages. They are ascribed various and conflicting abilities, temperaments and appearances depending on the story and country of origin. They are almost always small and grotesque, mischievous or outright malicious, and greedy, especially for gold and jewelry. They often have magical abilities similar to a fairy or demon. Similar creatures include brownies, dwarfs, duendes, gnomes, imps, and kobolds.

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