Reading Notes: Twenty-Two Goblins Part B

In Part B of the reading, the king and the goblin are still going at it with the riddles. Per usual, the king knows the answer to the riddle and the goblin is transported back to the tree. However, on the last riddle the king is stumped because he does not know the answer allowing him to take the body back to the monk. The goblin tells the king that the monk is rouge one and is using the king as a sacrifice to gain magical powers and become king of fairies. He tells the king to trick the monk into cutting his head off. I really enjoyed reading this unit because it entailed riddles that peaked my interest. I would change the riddles to moderns one instead because all of them are set in an older time period. Another possible outcome of my rendition would be to change the ending. Where the king tricks the goblin with a riddle of him own and this allows him to escape with the body back to the monk only to be tricked by the monk and used as a sacrifice. This would put a twist to the ending because we all expected the king to survive since he was doing such a kind and selfless deed. 

                                  Twenty-Two Goblins by Arthur Ryder, link to online reading

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