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Gremlins are mythical little creatures who are said to live solely to infest mankind's machinery and tear it apart, either just to be mischievous (or downright evil), or in an insanely curious attempt to figure out how various devices work. Especially found around airfields or on airplanes, as they originated as a story told by British pilots starting in roughly the 1920's to explain various mechanical failures on their planes. They only began to penetrate mainstream culture during [[World War Two]]; see below under Literature. Although the name may have been derived from an Olde English word, gremian, which means "to vex", this obviously makes them [[Newer Than They Think]].