I was asking myself the same question then i remembered-they are in Phillip Pullmans' His Dark Materials books. They are the people who steal the children away from their homes and take them to be 'severed'!
Hope this is who you were thiking of.
If not-read these books-they are amazing!
The Gobblers are a group of individuals in Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy who are responsible for abducting children and separating them from their daemons. They are part of a larger organization known as the General Oblation Board, which conducts experiments on children in pursuit of knowledge about Dust.
Oil Gobblers was created in 1988.
No, gobblers do not steal children. Gobblers are fictional creatures from Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" series, where they are associated with child abduction and mysterious disappearances. However, in reality, gobblers do not exist.
Profiles of Nature - 1986 Gobblers was released on: USA: 21 June 2004
Presque Isle Gobblers gnob
markleysburg pa (gobblers knob)
Turkeys have both sexes, of course. Males are gobblers, females are called hens. Males can also be called "toms".
Adult male turkeys are called "toms", or "gobblers". Subadult males are called "jakes".
This is not an idiom. When you see AS ___ AS ___, you are looking at A Simile. This one is comparing something to the red color of a turkey's wattle.
Gobblers eat 1/2 lb to 1 lb per day and hens eat approx 1/3 lb.
In the first book of the His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra's friend who disappears is Roger Parslow. He is abducted by the Gobblers and taken to Bolvangar.
Due largely to a UK miner's strike in 1984-1985 during which two pickets died, inhabitants of Leigh, Greater Manchester were dubbed "lobby gobblers", in contrast to the neighboring inhabitants of the town of Wigan's "pie-eaters".
In "Northern Lights," Lyra meets the gyptians when she joins them on a journey to the Arctic to rescue children who have been taken by the Gobblers. She encounters them while trying to uncover the truth about Dust and her own origins.