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Boggart (Scotch)—a local hobgoblin or spirit.
Bogie (Scotch, Welsh, and Irish)—a scarecrow, a goblin.
Brownie—the house spirit in Scottish superstition. Called in England Robin Goodfellow. Farms are his favorite abode.
Jack-a-lantern—a bog or marsh spirit who delights to mislead.
Lepracaun, or Leprechaun (Irish)—a fairy shoemaker.
Filipino Fairies and Other Minor Supernatural Creatures
The list that follows is necessarily very brief, for every tribe of the Philippine Islands has its host of mischievous creatures, whose chief delight is to annoy or frighten men. Others are of a more malignant nature, however; some cause sickness; some insanity; and occasionally some cause death, for the Filipinos as well as the Hungarians have their vampires.
The name of the tribe in which the belief in the spirit is most common is given in parentheses after the description:
Salut—the spirits of pestilence in general and cholera in particular. They are described as tall, thin persons dressed in flowing black robes, who walk the streets at night and knock at the doors of the houses to which they wish to carry death. (Tagalog, Pampango, Bicol.)