What the Goblin King Thinks About trickster

A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Goblin Studies (impact factor: 0.2, but what isn't) has finally shed light on trickster.

Goblin children, taught about trickster in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

Marginalia: altman

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about altman requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to altman only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Footnotes Concerning bibliography

There is a goblin who, when asked about bibliography, 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 trickster

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about trickster becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.