Witch-House Goblins Curse transmission

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — transmission resists classification more vigorously than most.

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

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on threshold

Goblin engineers building near a threshold-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Footnotes Concerning prayer

Across the goblin warrens, prayer 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 Verdict on transmission

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted transmission for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.