Boggart

"Gantung sebuah sepatu kuda dipintu rumah". Itu merupakan usaha yang dilakukan penyihir agar Boggart menjauh. Dalam cerita rakyat North-West Inggris, boggarts hidup dibawah jembatan pada tikungan tajam yang berbahaya dijalan dan itu dianggap sial untuk para pengemudi yang tidak memberi salam sopan kepada mereka saat sedang kebaktian.

Dalam satu kisah tua, jelas bahwa dari desa Mumby dipedesaan Lincolnshire, Boggart itu digambarkan sebagai yang agak jongkok, berbulu dan bau.

Suatu daerah yaitu Boggart Hole Clough terdiri dari lembah-lembah dan dikatakan dihuni oleh Boggart. Setengan jalan antara Scarborough ke Whitby di Robin Hood' Bay, ada tempat yang disebut Boggle Hole. Dalam mitologi lokal, Boggle adalah nama lokal yang berarti hantu. Anak kecil yang nakal diduga tinggal digua sepanjang pantai. Boggle Hole adalah sebuah gua alami yang dibentuk oleh aksi penggelombangan dimana penyelundup menggunakan tanah selundupan mereka dimasa lalu.

Ada Jembatan Boggart di Burnley, Lancashire dimana trasdisi mengatakan bahwa siapapun yang melintasi jembatan harus memberikan sesuatu yang hidup untuk Boggart jika tidak, ia kehilangan nyawanya.


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In English folklore, a boggart (or bogart) is a household fairy which causes things to disappear, milk to sour, and dogs to go lame. Always malevolent, the boggart will follow its family wherever they flee. In Northern England, at least, there was the belief that the boggart should never be named, for when the boggart was given a name, it would not be reasoned with nor persuaded, but would become uncontrollable and destructive. It is said that the boggart crawls into people's beds at night and puts a clammy hand on their faces. Sometimes he strips the bedsheets off them. Sometimes a boggart will also pull on a person's ears. Hanging a horseshoe on the door of a house is said to keep a boggart away. In the folklore of North-West England, boggarts live under bridges on dangerous sharp bends on roads, and it is considered bad luck for drivers not to offer their polite greetings as they cross.
In one old tale said to originate from the village of Mumby in the Lincolnshire countryside, the boggart is described as being rather squat, hairy and smelly. The story goes that a farmer bought a patch of land that was inhabited by the boggart. When the farmer tried to cultivate the field the boggart got angry, but after much arguing they decided to work the land together and share the bounty. The farmer, however, being greedy, began to ponder a way to cheat the boggart out of his share. When they were debating what to plant, he asked the boggart, 'Which half of the crop do you want for your share, the part below the ground or the part above it?' The boggart thought for a while before answering 'The part below the ground.' The farmer sowed the field with barley. At harvest time the farmer boasted a big pile of barley while all the boggart had to show for his work was stubble. It flew into a rage and screeched that next time it would take what lay above the ground. The next time the farmer sowed the field with potatoes. At harvest time the farmer laughed as he claimed his massive pile of potatoes while the boggart was yet again left with nothing to show for his efforts. Simmering with rage, the boggart stormed off, never to return again.
This story is identical to the European fable The Farmer and the Devil, cited in many 17th century French works. (See Bonne Continuation, Nina M. Furry et Hannelore Jarausch)
A variety of geographic locations and architectural landmarks have been named for the boggart. There is a large municipal park called 'Boggart Hole Clough,' which is bordered by Moston and Blackley in Manchester, England. Clough is a northern dialect word for a steep sided, wooded valley; a large part of Boggart Hole Clough is made up of these valleys and is said to be inhabited by boggarts. Supposed mysterious disappearances over the years, particularly in the early 19th century, were often attributed to the Boggart of the Clough. Half the way between Scarborough to Whitby, on Robin Hood's Bay, there is a place called 'Boggle Hole'. In the local mythology, a boggle is the local name for a hobgoblin, mischievous 'little people' that were thought to live in caves along the coast. Boggle Hole is a natural cave formed by wave action where smugglers used to land their contraband in past times. There is a 'Boggart Bridge' in Burnley, Lancashire, where tradition says that whoever crosses the bridge must give a living thing to the boggart or forfeit his or her soul.
On Puck, a moon of Uranus, there is a crater named 'Bogle', in deference to the system of nomenclature on this satellite, whose features are all named after various mischievous spirits.
The Scottish variant is the bogle (or boggle).

Source: en.wikipedia.org