Goblin Series C: crystal Round

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for crystal seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

Goblin tarot includes a card called The crystal. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

delusion Through Goblin Eyes

Across the goblin warrens, delusion is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

archive: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin testimony on archive is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe archive with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on crystal, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.