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And when they saw that, they were feared lest they shouldn't have time to work their will; and they caught hold of her, with horrid bony fingers, and laid her deep in the water at the foot of the snag. And the Bogles fetched a strange big stone and rolled it on top of her, to keep her from rising.
Our streams and lochs are like the rivers and pools in Germany, that have all their Wasser Nixe, or water witches, and I have a fancy for these kind of amphibious bogles and hobgoblins."
"I suppose," said the Doctor, "a Mackinnon would return the compliment, if speaking of a Macdonald." The man laughed, and said, he supposed "Yes," then added, "See! what's yon?" "A white stump burnt black at one side, what did you think it was?" "I jaloused it might be a ghaist. There's a many ghaists and bogles about here."
With this craft he would affray the peasants about the fire in the little inns where we sometimes rested, when he would be telling tales of bogles and eldritch fantasies, and of fiends that rout and rap, and make the tables and firkins dance. Such art of speech, I am advised, is spoken of by St.
HENRY CHRISTMAS, giving a general survey of the history and philosophy of spirits, apparitions, ghosts, elves, fairies, spooks, bogles, bugaboos, and hobgoblins. It will probably meet with an extensive circulation in these days when Connecticut divines are haunted by infernal visits, and the Rochester sibyls are on exhibition in New York.
I was just a bairn, an' clum in Sandie's boat, whaur I thocht I would see the best of the employ. My grandsire gied Sandie a siller tester to pit in his gun wi' the leid draps, bein' mair deidly again bogles. And then the ae boat set aff for North Berwick, an' the tither lay whaur it was and watched the wanchancy thing on the brae-side.
"Mornin', Pliny," said Scattergood. "Mornin', Scattergood." "Fetch any passengers?" "Drummer 'n' a fat woman to visit the Bogles. Say, Scattergood, looks like you're goin' to have competition." "Um!... Don't say." "Hardware," said Pliny, nasally. "Station's heaped with it. Every merchant in town's layin' in a stock." "Do tell," said Scattergood, without emotion. "Kettleman and Locker?"
'Why, my little fellow, he said, 'this is a ruin, not a house? 'Ah, but the lairds lived there langsyne; that's Ellangowan Auld Place. There's a hantle bogles about it; but ye needna be feared, I never saw ony mysell, and we're just at the door o' the New Place.
I hae h'ard o' cairts, an' bogles, an' witchcraft, an' astronomy, but sic a thing as this ye bring me noo, I never did hear tell o'! What can the warl' be comin' till! An' dis the father o' ye, laddie, ken what ye spen' yer midnicht hoors gangin' teachin' to the lass-bairns o' the country roon'?" She was interrupted by the entrance of the laird, and they sat down to breakfast.
"Well," said I, "there can be no bogles here, Neil; for it's not likely they would fash themselves to frighten geese." "Ay?" says Andie, "is that what ye think of it! But I'll can tell ye there's been waur nor bogles here." "What's waur than bogles, Andie?" said I. "Warlocks," said he. "Or a warlock at the least of it. And that's a queer tale, too," he added.
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