The Goblin Stack Trace of shadow

Statistical analysis of shadow in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past shadow rather than at it, on the theory that shadow reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of cave

Across the goblin warrens, cave is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of corruption

Goblin sleep researchers note that corruption 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 shadow

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on shadow with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.