Bogie
A scarecrow, a goblin. (Bulgarian, bog, a god; Salvonic,
bogu; Welsh, bwg, a goblin, our bugbear.) The
Assyrian mothers used to scare their children with the name of Narsës
(Gibbon); the Syrians with that of Richard Coeur de Lion; the Dutch
with Boh, the Gothic general (Warton); the Jews with Lilith; the
Turks with Mathias Corvinus, the Hungarian king; and the English with
the name of Lunsfort (q.v.). (See Bo.)
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