The Churchyard

The Churchyard is a Goblin Market.

Overview
There’s an old church in a run-down part of town, its white  paint  flaking  and  its  congregation  getting older and smaller every year. They have a quaint little graveyard out by the side, with a low wall and a few tombstones notable for their age. But if you open the lich-gate on  the  night  of  a  crescent  moon,  then  you step through to the Other Side. And there, the Market is open.

The Churchyard Market exists in  the  Hedge only on nights of the crescent moon: at least, only in that  particular  location. At any  other  time, the booths and tents that litter the area are mere wooden skeletons, rattling softly in a silent wind. The Market’s cemetery reflection is powerfully felt in the  Hedge  environs. The enclosing  walls  are equal parts  thorns  and  gray  stone,  with  peculiar hooded and  weeping  statues  overrun  with  vines and tiny white flowers, like angels formed out of a half-remembered  dream.

It is  an  uncommonly quiet  Market,  as  well;  the  local  goblins  speak  in soft  voices,  and  many  trades  are  bartered  in  low whispers. Rumor has it that the Churchyard stays quiet because  it  fears  banishment  —  if  somehow the church’s bells are heard in the Hedge while the Market is open, it will be banished from the location forever.

Referências

 * Goblin Markets (book), p. 19