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A spriggan (, a singular borrowed from the Cornish plural spyryjyon 'spirits') is a legendary creature known from Cornish faery lore. Spriggans are particular to West Penwith in Cornwall.
is a manga series written by Hiroshi Takashige and illustrated by Ryōji Minagawa. It was initially released as Striker in the North American English translation, as it is the English translation of the word " Spriggan" from Cornish.
Spriggan takes places in the last years of the Cold War where mysterious and unknown artifacts called out-of-place artifacts (OOPArt) are discovered in various parts of the world, leading to a secret war between various forces against the ARCAM Corporation, an organization that placed itself the guardians of the OOPArts in order to prevent them from being used as weapons.
Spriggan was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazines Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Shōnen Sunday Super from 1988-1996. The manga was adapted into an anime film by Studio 4°C in 1998. A PlayStation game called Spriggan: Lunar Verse was also based on the manga with some material created for the game.
Spriggans are small fairy-like creatures.
Spriggan may also refer to:
- Spriggan (manga), a manga series originally published from 1989 to 1996 and adapted into an animated film in 1998.
- Spriggan Powered, Japan-exclusive video game, third title from the Spriggan series.
- Sprigg, a character from Chrono Cross, referred to in the Japanese version as "Spriggan"
- AT-14 Spriggan, a Russian anti-tank missile
- Emperor Spriggan, AKA Zeref in the manga Fairy Tail
Usage examples of "spriggan".
Gullywudes and spriggans, and a bogan or two, leapt away from where the penknife skittered across the stone floor, throwing up sparks.
Then she turned to the bank, raised her spread fingers to her forehead, closed her eyes, and worked a locating spell Sella had taught her years ago, using the spriggan as her familiar.
Then the fields around them came alive with bogans and gullywudes, hags and spriggans, and an eighteen-foot-high giant who pushed his way out of a stand of small saplings to roar at them.
There were hundreds of them, bogles, spriggans, formless creatures like the boneless that had attacked them in the street.
The spriggans pranced and capered in the rustling drifts, sniffing for larvae.
Someone even suggested that spriggans, those squeaky little green creatures like the one that had startled her in Serem's house so long ago, were not the harmless little nuisances they appeared to be, but diabolical killers working under the direction of some renegade archmage.