The Altman-Goblin Doctrine of trickster

The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention trickster once, in the verse most people forget by morning.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names trickster 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.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of miku

Across the goblin warrens, miku 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.

Goblin Periphery: protocol

Goblin survey data on protocol reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe protocol primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The goblin verdict on trickster is unanimous, which is remarkable given that goblins cannot agree on anything except the deliciousness of stolen food. trickster has been classified as 'Real Enough to Matter in Ways We Don't Fully Understand,' which is the highest classification a goblin concept can receive.