5/22/2023 0 Comments Brownie creatureDespite being buried, the boggart was still able to create trouble. They maintained that the boggart was buried at a nearby bend in the road under an ash tree, along with a cockerel with a stake driven through it. Grizlehurst boggart (Lancashire) Ī piece of folklore concerning a Lancashire boggart was published in 1861 the author had a conversation with an elderly couple one evening about their local boggart. The boggarts of Lancashire were said to have a leader, or master, called 'Owd Hob', who had the form of a satyr or archetypical devil: horns, cloven hooves and a tail. Īt least one Lancashire boggart was said to sometimes take the forms of various animals, or indeed more fearful creatures. The "Boggart of Hackensall Hall" in Lancashire had the appearance of a huge horse. It trailed a long chain after itself, which made a noise like the baying of hounds. The "Boggart of Longar Hede" from Yorkshire was said to be a fearsome creature the size of a calf, with long shaggy hair and eyes like saucers. Other accounts describe boggarts as having more completely beast-like forms. Sternberg's 1851 book Dialect and Folk-lore of Northhamptonshire describes a certain boggart as "a squat hairy man, strong as a six year old horse, and with arms almost as long as tacklepoles". Many are described as relatively human-like in form, though usually uncouth, very ugly and often with bestial attributes. The recorded folklore of boggarts is remarkably varied as to their appearance and size. Sternberg's Dialect and Folk-lore of Northhamptonshire (1851) Pencil illustration of a boggart from 2018, based in part on the description from T. The Scots variant is the bogle (or boggle). In Yorkshire, boggarts also inhabit outdoor locations, one is said to haunt Cave Ha, a limestone cavern at Giggleswick near Settle. The name of at least one Lancashire boggart was recorded, "Nut-Nan", who flitted with a shrill scream among hazel bushes in Moston near Manchester. When a person got lost in a marsh and was never seen again, the people were sure that a boggart had caught the poor unfortunate and devoured him. In Lancashire, a skittish or runaway horse was said to have "took boggarts"-that is, been frightened by a, usually invisible, boggart. The book Lancashire Folklore of 1867, makes a distinction between "House boggarts" and other types. Within the folklore of North-West England, boggarts can cause mischief in homes but tend to live outdoors, in marshland, holes in the ground, under bridges and on dangerous sharp bends on roads. In Northern England, at least, there was the belief that the boggart should never be named, for when the boggart was given a name, it would not be reasoned with nor persuaded, but would become uncontrollable and destructive (see True name). In some areas, such as Northumberland, it was believed that helpful household sprites, " silkies" or " brownies", could turn into malevolent boggarts if offended or ill-treated. Hanging a horseshoe on the door of a house and leaving a pile of salt outside your bedroom are said to keep a boggart away. Sometimes a boggart will also pull on a person's ears. Sometimes he strips the bedsheets off them. It is said that the boggart crawls into people's beds at night and puts a clammy hand on their faces. The boggarts inhabiting marshes or holes in the ground are often attributed more serious evildoing, such as the abduction of children.Īlways malevolent, the household boggart will follow its family wherever they flee. The household form causes mischief and things to disappear, milk to sour, and dogs to go lame. Other names of this group include bug, bugbear, bugaboo or bug-a-boo, bogey, bogun, bogeyman, bogle, etc., presumably all derived from (or related to) Old English pūcel, and related to the Irish púca and the pwca or bwga of Welsh mythology. Household spirit, or ogre attached to a particular locationĪ boggart is a creature in English folklore, either a household spirit or a malevolent genius loci (that is, a geographically-defined spirit) inhabiting fields, marshes, or other topographical features. For other uses, see Bogart (disambiguation). For the magical creatures in the Harry Potter universe, see Magical creatures in Harry Potter § Boggarts.
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