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In the Scottish Lowlands circa 1950, a bogle was a ghost as was a bogeyman, and a Tattie-Bogle was a scarecrow, used to keep creatures out of the potato fields. All three words were in common use among the children. It is unclear what the connection is between "Bogle" and various other similarly named creatures in various folklores. [16]
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] Halifax folklorist Kai Roberts states that boggart ‘might have been used to refer to ...
Glaistig. The glaistig / ˈɡlæʃtɪɡ / is a ghost from Scottish mythology, a type of fuath. It is also known as maighdean uaine (Green Maiden), and may appear as a woman of beauty or monstrous mien, as a half-woman and half-goat similar to a faun or satyr, or in the shape of a goat. [ 1] The lower goat half of her hybrid form is usually ...
The term poltergeist is a German word, literally a "noisy ghost", for a spirit said to manifest itself by invisibly moving and influencing objects. [10] Wraith is a Scots word for "ghost, spectre, apparition". It came to be used in Scottish Romanticist literature, and acquired the more general or figurative sense of "portent, omen." In 18th- to ...
Scottish English ( Scottish Gaelic: Beurla Albannach) is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English ( SSE ). [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Scottish Standard English may be defined as "the characteristic speech of the professional ...
The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) ( Scots: Dictionar o the Scots Leid, Scottish Gaelic: Faclair de Chànan na Albais) is an online Scots – English dictionary run by Dictionaries of the Scots Language. Freely available via the Internet, the work comprises the two major dictionaries of the Scots language: [ 1]
Bauchan. The bauchan ( Scottish: bòcan[ 1] English: bauchan, buckawn or bogan[ 2]) is a type of domestic hobgoblin in Scottish folklore. It is often mischievous and sometimes dangerous, but is also very helpful when the need arises. [ 2]
Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue. The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) is a 12-volume dictionary that documents the history of the Scots language covering Older Scots from the earliest written evidence in the 12th century until the year 1700. DOST was compiled over a period of some eighty years, from 1931 to 2002.