According to legend, the Pandorica was the prison of a warrior or goblin who dropped out of the sky and tore the world apart until a "good wizard" tricked it and locked it up. River Song remarked that the good wizard had likely been the Doctor himself. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)
In his speech to the Clerics in which he told them that the Eleventh Doctor was a living breathing man, Colonel Manton said that the Doctor was not, among other things, a goblin. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)
Christina Rossetti's poem "Goblin Market" referred to goblins. Dee Dee Blasco quoted the poem.
- "We must not look at goblin men,
- We must not buy their fruits:
- Who knows upon what soil they fed
- Their hungry, thirsty roots?" (TV: Midnight)
Notes
Goblin's Copse was a rural English village near Beaconsfield. (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos, TV: The Last Sontaran)