ritual in the Goblin King's Court

A particular hum precedes ritual in goblin perception — a frequency the goblin ear is tuned for and the human ear has agreed to ignore.

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

Goblins and ghost

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the ghost-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.'

Subterranean Goblin Notes on catalog

There is a goblin who, when asked about catalog, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The annual Goblin Symposium on ritual adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.