Reading Notes: Goblin City
In the city of Ceylon, off the southern tip of Indian, was a large city full of Goblins. They were all female. Since they were all female, they would get a hold of travelers if they wanted a husband. When they would get tired of having their husbands, they would simply eat them. One day, 500 sailors crashed their ship near the coast of the city. The shape shifting Goblins, disguised as normal humans, lured the sailors to the city with food and clothes. The Goblins used their magic powers to create illusions of people throughout the city so that the sailors wouldn't be scared off. The goblins convinced the sailors to marry them by telling them their husbands had gone to sea three years prior and never returned. The irony is that we know they have been gobbled up, or in prison waiting to be. One night, the Goblins waited until their husbands were asleep and went to the prison to eat their last batch of husbands. That night, the captain just so happened to wake up while his wife was gone and pretended to be asleep when she returned. He looked from the corner of his eye as she was still eating on her last husband's flesh. The captain heard his wife saying "Man's meat, man's meat, that's what Goblins like to eat" over and over. Hearing the word goblin startled the captain as he was in shock that he had married one. Leaving on the ship would be the best option since goblins are afraid of water, but their ship was gone. The captain tried to tell the other sailors, but some didn't believe him. Thankfully, their was a fairy who despised the goblins, and wanted to help the sailors. The fairy ordered her flying horse to go down and carry them away. The horse came down the ext day and asked the men who all wanted to go home. Some sailors climbed up, and others didn't. The fairy made the men shrink as they climbed onto the horse so that they could all fit. The sailors that were left behind met their fate that very night when the goblins mangled them, and munched them down.
The Flying Horse That Saved the Sailors
Source: Indian Epics
Bibliography:
From The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India
By W. H. D. Rouse
Illustrations by W. Robinson
Comments
Post a Comment