Week 2 Story: Goblin Mountain

Centuries ago on a mountain called Beylon lived a village of goblins.  They were all women.   They were very content living without men but from time to time, they liked to entice them into their community.  Nobody else really lived on Beylon, but it was a popular spot for hiking and camping.  If the she-goblins were looking to attract some men to their village, they would throw a giant party.  They possessed magic powers so they were able to make it appear like there were hundreds of people having a great time.  In reality, this was all a facade because they did not want the party to look suspicious.  Men would be hiking or camping and would hear music and wander over to the village.  At this point, they women would invite them in.  They would even offer them a home-cooked meal and nice place to stay.  This was a lot more appealing to the men than a tent.  The women, however, had a separate agenda for the men.  They would make these men fall in love with them but they did not love them back.  In fact, the she-goblins planned to use their magic to make the men completely obedient to them.  They essentially made them their slaves and would keep them as such until they got tired of them.  Once the women decided they no longer wanted the men, they would dispose of them in an utterly disturbing way.  They would turn them into dinner. 

One day, the she-goblins were planning one of their wicked parties and everything seemed to be going smoothly.  They had all been matched up with men of their choosing and began their routine.  One goblin, Ashla, decided she wanted to wait to cast her spell.  She was curious to see if she could get him to fall in love without doing it deceitfully.  Indeed, he did fall in love with her.  But something else happened.  She fell in love with him too.  Being in love, she could not see herself betraying him.  She reached out to the other women.  She proposed that maybe their way of life was wrong.  Many disagreed, but a couple wondered if she might be right and decided to test the waters for themselves.  Eventually, several she-goblins also fell in love with their men.  Everyone else in the village started to notice and got jealous of the connections of the other couples.  Everyone started to try it.  After a while, no one wanted to go back to their old, evil ways.  The women decided that living in harmony with men was not actually so bad.  They were all equals and could help each other tremendously.  The mountain of Beylon was forever changed.

 

 

"Not your average goblin" (Flickr) 

Authors Note: This story was based on Goblin City.  In this story, there were she-goblins that lived on an island.  They would force travelers to marry them and would eventually eat them once they were sick of them.  One day, a ship wrecked and the she-goblins were going about their normal routines to get these men to marry them.  They would sneak down at night to eat the previous men they had tricked.  Normally, all the men would be asleep, but one man woke up to hearing his wife gobbling down on some other man.  He informed the other men and convinced some of them to try to escape.  There was a fairy that was not such a fan of the goblins.  She decided to help the men out by sending down a flying horse to save those who wanted to escape.  The horse came and saved those who wanted it.  The men that stayed were toast.

Bibliography. "Goblin City" from The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India by W. H. D. Rouse.  Web Source