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Thus the dark ages do not, as might have been expected, provide us with most of this material. The last forty enlightened years give us more bogles than all the ages between St. Augustine and the Restoration.
"Frighted wi' bogles!" exclaimed the females, one and all, for great was the regard then paid, and perhaps still paid, in these glens, to all such fantasies. "I did not say frighted, now I only said mis-set wi' the thing And there was but ae bogle, neither Earnscliff, ye saw it; as weel as I did?"
"Well," said I, "there can be no bogles here, Neil; for it's not likely they would fash themselves to frighten solan 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.
He lay an' he tummled; the gude, caller bed that he got into brunt his very banes; whiles he slept, and whiles he waukened; whiles he heard the time o' nicht, and whiles a tike yowlin' up the muir, as if somebody was deid; whiles he thocht he heard bogles claverin' in his lug, an' whiles he saw spunkies in the room.
They came crowding round her, mocking and snatching and beating; shrieking with rage and spite, and swearing and snarling, for they knew her for their old enemy, that drove them back into the corners, and kept them from working their wicked wills. "Drat thee!" yelled the witch-bodies, "thou 'st spoiled our spells this year agone!" "And us thou sent'st to brood in the corners!" howled the Bogles.
Ye'll no catch ane o' the servants gauging up that stair, puir frightened heathens that they are, for fear of bogles and brownies, and lang-nebbit things frae the neist warld. But Father Vaughan thinks himself a privileged person set him up and lay him down!
"Not so bad," he might say to Mr. McLean; "if he keeps it up we may squeeze him through yet, without trusting to to what I was fool enough to mention to you. He has the spirit o't, man, even when he bogles at the sense." But the next time Ivie called for a report ! But he had.
The Scotchman, who, to all the sagacity of his countrymen, added no small portion of their superstition, leaned greatly to the latter conclusion, and had begun to express this sentiment warily with reverence, when the child of Erin, who appeared not to possess any very definite ideas on the subject interrupted him, by exclaiming: "Faith! there's two of them! a big and a little! sure the bogles of the saa likes good company the same as any other Christians!"
'What I do not know is not knowledge, Sir Walter Scott might have said, with regard to bogles and bar-ghaists. His collection at Abbotsford of such works as the Ephesian converts burned, is extensive and peculiar, while his memory was rich in tradition and legend. But as his Major Bellenden sings, Was never wight so starkly made, But time and years will overthrow.
"And maybe all this while I am but a child frighted with bogles," said I. "Maybe they but make a mock of me." "It is what I must know," she said. "I must hear the whole. The harm is done, at all events, and I must hear the whole."
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