They protect themselves from the goblins by showing no fear and singing nasty rhyming songs about the goblins, since the goblins cannot sing and cringe and flee when they hear others doing so. As well as goblins, miners work the mountain, excavating ore. There, they and their animals grew accustomed to the dark and the damp and evolved over the years to the horrible, vengeful creatures of the story. A series of laws and taxes were passed and the race of little people eventually found themselves and their livestock seeking refuge underground. Long ago, these goblin folk lived above ground with the humans, who grew intolerant of their differences. The servants who care for her are well aware of the goblin folk who inhabit the nearby mountain but do not speak of them for fear of upsetting Irene. Princess Irene is sent to be brought up by country people in a house that is half castle, half farm house, because her mother is too weak to care for her. The goblins, it seems, are somewhat club footed and without toes and their feet are the tenderest, weakest part on them. Written 1872, The Princess and the Goblin is the story of Princess Irene and a plot amongst the kingdom of goblins, or cobs, to kidnap her and marry her off to the horrid Prince Harelip, who is half goblin, half human and has a fetish for feet.
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