![]() ![]() 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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