Boggart
noun
(Northern English, dialect) a ghost or poltergeist
Historical Examples
The Lancashire Witches William Harrison Ainsworth
The Fairy Mythology Thomas Keightley
Lancashire Sketches Edwin Waugh
The Fairy Mythology Thomas Keightley
Japanese Fairy Tales Grace James
Legends of Longdendale Thomas Middleton
The Fairy Mythology Thomas Keightley
The Grotesque in Church Art T. Tindall Wildridge
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby
Pepper & Salt Howard Pyle
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