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Definition of Boggarts
1. boggart [n] - See also: boggart
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boggarts
Literary usage of Boggarts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Traditions, Superstitions, and Folklore, (chiefly Lancashire and the North by Charles Hardwick (1872)
"Is my youthful imagination, some forty odd years ago, "boggarts," ghosts, or
spirits of ... Certainly there are, or were, many boggarts whose mischievous ..."
2. Fourth Reader by Calvin Noyes Kendall, Marion Paine Stevens (1920)
"THE boggarts WHO BECAME BROWNIES JULIANA HORATIA EWING I "Children are a burden,"
said the tailor, as he sat on his bench stitching away. ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1870)
"... there is a gorge, or hill-side chasm, known as “ hell Mouth.” There is a class
of boggarts, ghosts, ... 185.5),when noticing time “boggarts, fairies, ..."
4. A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect by John Howard Nodal, George Milner (1875)
"A tribe of hardy, industrious, old-fashioned, simple-hearted folk, whose principal
fear is poverty and boggarts. They still gather round the fire, ..."
5. Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, Etc., with an Appendix by John Harland (1873)
"But, in later times, it was conceived that the sacrifice must have been wholly
consumed, and, consequently, that the two boggarts had full liberty to walk ..."
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