Boggart

Some thought it was, for it was called the Boggart's peep-hole; but others said that they had remembered it long before the shrill laugh of the Boggart was heard in the house.

Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821

It's not he uses the words "Boggart" or "Harry Potter," it's how he describes them.

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Leeds, the 'Boggart' or 'Barguest,' the Yorkshire Brownie is called by the people the _Gui-trash_, or _Ghei-trash_, the usual description of which is invariably that of a shaggy dog or other animal, _encumbered_ with a chain round its neck, which is heard to rattle in its movements.

Notes and Queries, Number 197, August 6, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

"East of Leeds the 'Boggart' is called the _Padfoot_."

Notes and Queries, Number 197, August 6, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

And as in a book called The Boggart, I ask forgiveness from the owners of Castle Stalker and of the Appin Community Cooperative Store for turning their homes into Castle Keep and the Camerons’ village shop.

The Boggart and The Monster Susan Cooper 2001

For example, the entry for "Boggart" encapsulates Professor Lupin's Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson on how to use the Riddikulus spell to defeat a boggart, spanning seven pages of lively narration and dialogue

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(Compare also Pl. Ex. 6 at 236-42, with Pl. Ex. 1, entry for "Boggart" (stating that Lupin "used a boggart as a substitute for a Dementor in tutoring Harry (PA12)").)

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The Lexicon entry for "Boggart" takes strands of dialogue from

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The entry for "Boggart," for example, contains the fictional facts that a boggart is "[a] shape shifter that prefers to live in dark, confined spaces, taking the form of the thing most feared by the person it encounters; nobody knows what a boggart looks like in its natural state," and that "Lupin taught his third year Defence Against the Dark Arts class to fight [a boggart] with the Riddikulus spell (PA7), and used a boggart as a substitute for a Dementor in tutoring Harry (PA12)."

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For those of us too brainy to watch soaps (except for Corrie and Katherine Kelly's wonderful portrayal of barm pot Becky) at new panel game for the recession, QE the Quantitave Easing game with Stephen Fry pilots at Boggart.

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