What is a beast-day 5

Once again, however, there were problems.
Trolls who had been taught a few simple sentences by the goblins
proceeded to destroy the hall as before. Jarveys raced around the
Council’s chair legs, tearing at as many ankles as they could reach.
Meanwhile a large delegation of ghosts (who had been barred
under Muldoon’s leadership on the grounds that they did not
walk on two legs, but glided) attended but left in disgust at what
they later termed “the Council’s unashamed emphasis on the
needs of the living as opposed to the wishes of the dead.” The
centaurs, who under Muldoon had been classified as “beasts” and
were now under Madame Clagg defined as “beings,” refused to
attend the Council in protest at the exclusion of the merpeople,
who were unable to converse in anything except Mermish while
above water.