[1] Spriggan is a dialect word, pronounced with the grapheme as /d͡ʒ/, sprid-jan, and not sprigg-an, borrowed from the Cornish plural spyrysyon 'spirits'.

[3] Although small in stature, they have often been considered to be the ghosts of giants and retained gigantic strength, and in one story collected by Robert Hunt, they showed the ability to swell to enormous size.

They raised sudden whirlwinds to terrify travellers, sent storms to blight crops, and sometimes stole away mortal children, leaving their ugly changelings in their place.

[6] On Christmas Eve, spriggans met for a midnight Mass at the bottom of deep mines, and passersby could hear them singing.

Additionally, spriggans – in the style of the Parkland Walk sculpture – can be found in The Elder Scrolls series of video games, where they are portrayed as exclusively female.