Hi Tom.
Well at least in britain, gremlin legends started as a way to explain the
various faults and breakdowns experienced by plane pilots in the second
world war. It started out as a bit of a joke, indeed when I was quite young
I once knewa vicar who was himself a pilot during the war and used to tell
myself and other childrenn Gremlin stories :D.. Then Rohald dahl, himself a
plane pilot decided to write a screen play story based on that idea of
Gremlins for Walt Disney in the mid 70's, albeit that had nothing to do with
the later films you mention accept the name, albiet I do own both Gremlins
films on dvd and rather enjoy them, as they were films I grew up with (I
even used to have an audio book of the novelization read by none other than
the most famous of all Doctor who actors, Tom Baker).
It's actually still common in Britain, if there are lots of electric faults
to say "oh we've got a gremlin" indeed this last weekend while I was staying
at my parents my laptop had a user account error, (why I'm only just picking
up my mail after getting back to my flat), my mum's video camera broke and!
our sky tv box froze, so my mum said we must have a gremlin in the
house, ---- I even tried askking my mum's dog to find it, but she was a
little confused, she did however go off runing around the house looking, so
clearly Dogs know what gremlins are too :D.
All the best,
Dark.
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