Boggart
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A boggart is a supernatural being from English folklore. The dialectologist Elizabeth Wright described the boggart as "a generic name for an apparition"; folklorist Simon Young defines it as "any ambi
Bannister Hall Doll
Boggart Hole Clough Brook
A postcard illustration by Randolph Caldecott from c. 1914 for the poem "The Three Jovial Huntsmen", depicting the huntsmen encountering a "boggart"
Brownie (folklore)
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A brownie or broonie, also known as a brùnaidh or gruagach, is a household spirit or hobgoblin from Scottish folklore that is said to come out at night while the owners of the house are asleep and per
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…and films such as The Spiderwick Chronicles, Mark Del Franco's Convergent World books, and the fantasy writing of Juliana Horatio Ewing, boggarts are brownies who have been angered or become malevolent. This has been adopted into folklore studies but is not found in traditional sources. The Poxy Boggards are…
Illustration of a brownie by Alice B Woodward
Roman Lararium, or household shrine to the Lares, from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii. Brownies bear many similarities to the Roman Lares.
A recurring folkloric motif holds that, if presented with clothing, a brownie will leave his family forever and never work for them again, similar to the Wichtelmänner in the German story of "The Elves and the Shoemaker".
O Waken, Waken, Burd Isbel, illustration by Arthur Rackham to Young Bekie, showing Billy Blind waking Burd Isobel