Bogies are shapeshifters, somewhere between the intelligent and bestial fae that are drawn to ambient magic and abandoned places[2]. They can take any number of shapes, but prefer those of creeping, crawling things. They are territorial, and live in large, devoted family groups, called nests. They tend to lurk in the shadows and appear to enjoy terrifying people.[3] They appear to have a sense of humor[4].
When Toby and her friends open Goldengreen after Evening Winterrose, they find the knowe taken over by Bogies and Pixies who try to scare them away. Ultimately, the two factions reach a truce that recognizes the knowe as the creatures' home first and foremost.[3] They coexist with Marcia, Dean Lorden, and the other permanent residents.[2][5]
October calls bogeys one of the "smaller Fae", along with pixies [6].
Mythology[]
A Bogey is a creature in English folklore, either a household spirit or a malevolent genius loci (that is, a geographically-defined spirit) inhabiting fields, marshes, or other topographical features.
The household form causes mischief and things to disappear, milk to sour, and dogs to go lame. Always malevolent, the household boggart will follow its family wherever they flee. 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 and leaving a pile of salt outside your bedroom are said to keep a boggart away.
The boggarts inhabiting marshes or holes in the ground are often attributed more serious evildoing, such as the abduction of children.
Other names of this group include bug, bugbear, bogey, bogun, bogeyman, bogle, etc., presumably all derived from the Welsh puca.
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