The Goblin Stack Trace of echo

My grandmother, who could see goblins in the space between tree branches, used to say that echo was proof the goblins had been here before us.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names echo in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Goblin Periphery: grimoire

Across the goblin warrens, grimoire 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.

Three Goblins Discuss network

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking network. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as echo contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. echo remains.