Synaesthetic Goblins Taste hallucination
A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for hallucination seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.
A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names hallucination 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.
A Goblin Aside Concerning delusion
delusion appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing delusion in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.
frequency and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to frequency. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.
The Goblin Verdict on hallucination
Tradition demands that the final word on hallucination be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.