The document summarizes information about the Trasgo, a small elf-like creature from Spanish folklore. It describes the Trasgo's appearance and mischievous activities, such as annoying inhabitants, breaking pots, and making noises. It also discusses different names for the Trasgo in various regions of Spain and mentions it being referenced in classic Spanish literature. Finally, it provides a brief summary of the plot of the 1872 novel "The Princess and the Goblin" by George MacDonald, where goblins plot against a princess but are thwarted by a mining boy named Curdie with help from the princess's great-grandmother.

1. THE TRASGO OR TRASGU
BY LUIS PALACIO VALLE

2. What is the trasgo
 The Trasgu is a small, human-looking elf, who wears a blouse and a red cap
and is often lame or left-handed. His main hobby is to annoy and make
heavy jokes to the inhabitants of the house, to break pots, to frighten the
cattle in the stables and make nocturnal noises through the attic. The trasgu
is a familiar goblin, and it is very difficult to get rid of it. Some families who
were forced to leave their homes because of the trasgu decided to return
when it was revealed that he was in the car of the move or that he was
walking behind the curb with some object forgotten by the family. The trasgu
likes to help (in his own way) in the housework, and the only way to get rid of
him is to perform impossible tasks, such as picking up water in a basket,
washing a black sheepskin until it turns white or having him pick up A
handful of millet scattered on the ground, whose grain is so small that it
sticks through the hole in his left hand.

3. The Names of the Trasgo
 In Asturias, the trasgu receives different denominations according to the
places. Thus, it is known as the Trasno, the Cornín or xuan dos Camios, in
the western zone, and as Gorretín Coloráu or the cap incarnate, in the most
eastern councils. The antics of the Goblin are repeated with different variants
in numerous towns and places throughout the Peninsula, and their
wanderings are evoked in classics of Spanish literature, such as Lazarillo de
Tormes, Cervantes hors d'oeuvres or the comedies of Lope de Vega.

4. THE PRINCES AND THE GOBLIN
 Princess Irene is an eight-year-old girl, who lives with several caregivers in a large
country house, while the king, her father, attends to the affairs of the kingdom. In the
mountains, not far from there, there is a mine, attended by a handful of mining
families; And even more deeply govlins have long been displaced from the fields
under the sun by men, who long to recover what once was theirs. The decades of
darkness have altered their physiognomy and that of their animals, turning them into
a plague Which lurks at night to the clueless travelers. As for example, Princess Irene
and her nurse Lootie, whom the twilight inadvertently reaches the mountain, exposing
them to a danger that only the timely intervention of Curdie, a mining child, intoning a
song (as the goblins fear the rhymes ) Conjura.
 Unfortunately the evil is already done. The king of the goblins already knows of the
existence of Irene, and conceives a plan to force through to his father to accept an
advantageous agreement with the exiled race. It does not count, however, with
Curdie's courage and resolve, let alone with the miraculous intervention of the great-
great-grandmother of the princess, a beautiful silver-haired old woman who lives in
one of the towers of the great house, Dove eggs and spinning tirelessly on a spinning
wheel. The problem is that no one believes the princess when he recounts the
chance encounter with his grandmother, not even CurdieAunque at last the total
confidence of Irene in his grandmother, transmitted to his friend, manages to ward off
the danger after a series of adventures. FIN