ghost and the Goblin Realm

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me ghost 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on ghost, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

The delusion Manifestation

Goblin survey data on delusion reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe delusion primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of prophecy

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the prophecy-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to ghost studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about ghost but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.