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Episode 164: Bowler and Buckawn (Patreon)

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2019-04-19 06:21:18
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2023-12
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A big rock and a little pugilist are today's monsters. Enjoy!

(I can't believe I didn't suggest that the Bowler is related to the Ogri from Doctor Who. I also can't believe I didn't say 'fisticuffs, eh?!' when discussing the Buckawn.)

 
Thanks to Ray Otus for our thumbnail image. The intro music is a clip from "Solve the Damn Mystery" by Jesse Spillane, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License.      

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Steve

The buchan is pretty much the same as a boggart, which is also attached to a person rather than a place. But boggarts are always malevolent, and gets worse if you give it a name.

Steve

It seems that the writers of monster manuals may have seen Francis Grose's, A provincial glossary; with a collection of local proverbs, and popular superstitions, 1787. What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of this festival of all festivals ; when the whole earth was so overrun with ghosts, boggles (1), bloody-bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies (2), bugbears, black dogs, spectres, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards, barguests (3), Robin-Goodfellows (4), hags (5), night-bats, scrags, breaknecks, fantasms, hob-goblins, hobhoulards, boggy-boes, dobbies (6), hob-thrusts (7), fetches (8), kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars (9), mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubusses, spoorns, men-in- the-oak, hell-wains, fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tails, knockers, elves (10), raw-heads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-fooits, pixies, pictrees (II), giants, dwafs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprats, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, (12), tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag- foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraithes (13), waffs (14), flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers (15), pucks, fays, kidnappers, gally-beggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies (16), cauld-lads (17), death-hearses, goblins (18), hob-headlesses (19), buggaboes, kows (20), or cowes, nickies, nacks, [necks] waiths (21), miffies, buckles, gholes, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy -carlins [Gyre-carling], pigmies, cliittifaces, nixies (22), Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers (23), boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men (24), cowies, dunnies (25), wirrikows (26), alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds, lubberkins, cluricanns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles, korigans, sylvans, succubuses, black-men, shadows, banshees, lian-hanshees, clabbernappers, Gabriel-hounds, mawkins, doubles (27), corpse lights or candles, scrats, mahounds, trows, gnomes, sprites, fates, fiends, sybils, nick-nevins (28), whitewomen, fairies (29), thrummy-caps (30), cutties (31), and nisses, and apparitions of every shape, make, form, fashion, kind and description, that there was not a village in England that had not its own peculiar ghost. Nay, every lone tenement, castle, or mansion-house, which could boast of any antiquity had its bogle, its spectre, or its knocker. The churches, churchyards, and cross-roads, were all haunted. Every green lane had its boulder-stone on which an apparition kept watch at night. Every common had its circle of fairies belonging to it. And there was scarcely a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit!

monsterman
>>21918649

That is amazing. I'd read Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, but I can see I'm going to have to look into this one as well!