The púca, puca, also pwca, pooka, pookah, phouka, and puck, is a creature of Celtic, English, and Channel Islands folklore. Considered to be bringers both of good and bad fortune, they could help or h
Elwood P. Dowd and the shadow of a púca, characters in the 1950 film Harvey
Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Púca
…as an eagle with a huge wingspan and in Roscommon as a black goat. William Shakespeare's 1595 play A Midsummer Night's Dream features the character "Robin Goodfellow," who is also called "sweet Puck," a version of the púca. The title character in the 1944 stage play Harvey – twice adapted into a 1950 film starring…
Vince Cardinale as Puck from the Carmel Shakespeare Festival production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, September 2000
Puck (1789) by Joshua Reynolds
Puck (c. 1810–1820), Henry Fuseli's depiction of the character
Puck by William Dyce, (1825) Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums