Puck (folklore)
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In English folklore, The Puck, also known as Goodfellows, are demons or fairies which can be domestic sprites or nature sprites.
Illustration from the title page of Robin Goodfellow: His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests (1629)
Joseph Noel Paton, Puck and Fairies, detail from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The Mad Pranks of Robin Goodfellow, by John Franklin, engraving by Edward Dalziel, 1845
Púca
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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
Puck (folklore)
…with related forms including Old Swedish puke, Icelandic púki, and Frisian puk) but also in the Celtic languages (Welsh pwca, Cornish bucca and Irish púca). Most commentators think that the word was borrowed from one of these neighbouring north-west European languages into the others, but it is not certain…
Elwood P. Dowd and the shadow of a púca, characters in the 1950 film Harvey