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A bogle, boggle, or bogill is a Northumbrian, [1] Cumbrian [2] and Scots term for a ghost or folkloric being, [3] used for a variety of related folkloric creatures including Shellycoats, [4] Barghests, [4] Brags, [4] the Hedley Kow [1] [5] and even giants such as those associated with Cobb's Causeway [5] (also known as "ettins", "yetuns" or "yotuns" in Northumberland and "Etenes", "Yttins" or ...
A boggart is a supernatural being from English folklore.The dialectologist Elizabeth Wright described the boggart as 'a generic name for an apparition'; [1] folklorist Simon Young defines it as 'any ambivalent or evil solitary supernatural spirit'. [2]
Scottish legendary creatures (4 C, 53 P) Loch Ness Monster (1 C, 19 P) M. Scottish mythology (2 C, 56 P) O. Orkneyinga saga (2 C, ... Bogle; Boobrie;
The mythological Chimera is a terrifying creature that features a fire-breathing lion’s head attached to a goat’s body, ending in a serpent tail. There are varying versions of what a Chimera ...
Basan, a fire-breathing chicken from Japanese mythology; Cockatrice, a chicken-headed dragon or serpent, visually similar to or confused with the Basilisk. Gallic rooster, a symbolic rooster used as an allegory for France; Gullinkambi, a rooster who lives in Valhalla in Norse mythology; Rooster of Barcelos, a mythological rooster from Portugal
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The following is a list of lists of legendary creatures, beings and entities from the folklore record. Entries consist of legendary and unique creatures , not of particularly unique individuals of a commonly known species.
The menacing creatures would often disappear at dawn. The word duergar is likely to be derived from the dialectal words for "dwarf" on the Anglo-Scottish border which include dorch , dwerch , duerch , Duergh and Duerwe amongst others [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] with a later, mistakenly added Norse -ar plural, perhaps as a result of linguistic ...