I felt really called to read the story titled Goblin City, it sounded like something I would find joy from reading. I then continued to reading, and it got interesting. It seemed as though the story of Goblin City was similar to the idea of sirens in mythology. The city was inhabited by lady goblins that lived all together and if they wanted husbands they had to lure the travelers in and trick them into marrying them. When they got too tired of their husbands, they ate them.
They had to wait until ships of sailors would wreck on the coast, and they would lure them into their city promising them shelter and using magic to make it seem like there were a lot more people there than there were. They used their goblin magic to make fake men that were doing yard work to make the sailors feel lulled into a false sense of security.
The goblin women ended up persuading the sailors to marry them as they put their last batch of husbands into prison to gobble up for a snack later. The women goblins would sneak out and eat the men in the night while their new husbands were sleeping peacefully.
One of the goblin's husbands woke up in the middle of the night and noticed she wasn't there, so he waited up for her and heard her singing "Man’s meat, man’s meat, That’s what Goblins like to eat!"
When the captain found out he had married a goblin he was (of course) mortified, so he went to tell all of his friends, and only some believed him. Those that believed him went to a fairy who was an enemy of the goblins and she offered a way out of the city since their boat was gone. The fairy's flying horse came down and offered the men a ride. Those that flew away on the giant horse were able to survive, but the other men were gobbled alive.
Image from Goblin City
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