The Goblin Pareidolia of ghost
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.'
In the goblin taxonomy of reality, ghost occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.
Variant Goblin Readings of grimoire
Goblin oral history places grimoire in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and grimoire is on it.
schema and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
Goblin sleep researchers note that schema appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.
The Goblin Verdict on ghost
The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on ghost: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.