Talk:Jinn of the Jar/@comment-25930818-20150324093927/@comment-25035274-20150327180522

But even then RPG creators, even the Japanese ones, tend to originally draw their monsters from folklore. And I'm the sort of nutjob that gets hung up on trying to figure out where this monster or that monster comes from in folklore.

EDIT: Actually, never mind. These types of critters come from the original D&D mimic.

...I still wonder if they maybe got the idea from the Pooka originally, or anything similar.

EDITED EDIT: By that last "they", I was referring to Gygax & Co, mind.