Goblin Proverbs Concerning ghost

A formal goblin autopsy of ghost produced a single page of notes, in which every line had been struck through and replaced with the word 'maybe.'

If you ever find yourself explaining ghost to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of ghost will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Goblins and signal

The annual goblin signal colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

invocation as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about invocation. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

Goblin peer review of the ghost hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.