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Definition of Boggards
1. boggard [n] - See also: boggard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boggards
Literary usage of Boggards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters to the Young on Progress in Pudsey During the Last Sixty Years by Joseph Lawson (1887)
"... to make boggards—Why are they scarcer ? —Deaths, the result of bad sanitation,
thought to be the will of Heaven- Sanitary science kills such notion. ..."
2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1897)
"We usually call the ghosts of the dead either ghosts or boggards —boggards
especially, if they appear in animal form—while the manifestations of the living ..."
3. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke (1897)
"We usually call the ghosts of the dead either ghosts or boggards —boggards
especially, if they appear in animal form—while the manifestations of the living ..."
4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"He thought it wisdom to keep the Land for a boggards for his unclean spirit*
employed in this Hemisphere, and the people, to do his son and heir, ..."
5. Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and by Peter Force (1844)
"... the old Fox foresaw it would eclipse the glory of all the rest: he thought it
wisdom to keep the Land for a boggards for his unclean spirits imployed in ..."
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