Fairy tales and folklore are fascinating to me, the fact that humans came up with Goblins is so weird to me.
Yeah fairy tales take you to a different level of imagination
Have you ever read the folklore of Joseph Jacobs? Dude was a social sevant. 
I didn't get a chance to read it. You seem to have a lot of knowledge about Goblins !!!
I mainly am intrigued by Orcs, like the ones from Middle Earth, truly strange sinister creatures. 
I love Harry Potter. Do you find it interesting?
Religious debates over the Harry Potter series
Religious debates over the "Harry Potter" series of books by J. K. Rowling are based on claims that the novels contain occult or Satanic subtexts. A number of Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christians have argued against the series, as have some Shia and Sunni Muslims. Supporters of the series have said that the magic in "Harry Potter" bears little resemblance to occultism, being more in the vein of fairy tales such as "Cinderella" and "Snow White", or
Lucas states that in the early 1970s after completing his early film, "American Graffiti", "it came to me that there really was no modern use of mythology...so that's when I started doing more strenuous research on fairy tales, folklore and mythology, and I started reading Joe's books. Before that I hadn't read any of Joe's books... It was very eerie because in reading "The Hero with A Thousand Faces" I began to realize that my first draft of "Star Wars" was