- It is said that goblins would force travelers/sailors/etc. to be their husbands. In this story, the sailors were persuaded to marry the goblins.
- Goblins used their magic powers to make the environment look normal. What is the extent of their powers?
- There is no timeline for how long the sailors had been there.
- Of the 500 sailors, only one awakened before his wife returned.
- The captain's wife could not contain her excitement about what goblins like to eat, muttering a song about it, and outing herself as a goblin. She could have learned something from The Turtle and the Geese.
- Many of the sailors appear to be very gullible, trusting their wives (who they may or may not have known for a long time by now) instead of their captain and other sailors they had been shipwrecked with.
- A kind, goblin-hating fairy comes from nowhere to save the sailors. Why didn't she save any of the men before the sailors?
- The sailors climbed up on the horse and it is believed that they began to shrink to the size of ants, allowing enough room for all who wished to join.
- The men who chose not to leave were killed and eaten that same night.
This story has a lot of holes and I'm not sure what the moral is (or if there is even supposed to be a moral). It does have an interesting setting, however.
Island of Ceylon (September 2008)
Image Creator: Lencer
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons
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