Cornish dial. [prob. Cornish.] A sprite, a goblin.
1865. R. Hunt, Pop. Rom. W. Eng., Ser. I. 66. The Spriggans are found only about the cairns, coits or cromlechs, burrows, or detached stones.
1891. J. H. Pearce, Esther Pentreath, III. viii. She found Aichel watching her as closely as if he were some gruesome spriggan set to guard the old mill or herself.
