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Faix, some av it is gone from me, but I mind that I was to change me garthers, an’ tie on me thumb a bit o’ bark she gev me, an’ go to the churchyard on Halloween, an’ take the first chilla-ca-pooka (snail) I found on a tombshtone, an’ begob, it was that same job that was like to be the death o’ me, it bein’ dark an’ I bendin’ to look clost, a hare jumped in me face from undher the shtone.

—Irish Wonders

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noun A mischievous spirit in Irish folklore.

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Generally it was Schmendrick who did that, but I brought him back that time, holding my hand and telling me how you can recognize a pooka, and why you need to. — FSF,October2005
The pooka often assumes the shape of an enormous bogeyman. — News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
Faix, some av it is gone from me, but I mind that I was to change me garthers, an’ tie on me thumb a bit o’ bark she gev me, an’ go to the churchyard on Halloween, an’ take the first chilla-ca-pooka (snail) I found on a tombshtone, an’ begob, it was that same job that was like to be the death o’ me, it bein’ dark an’ I bendin’ to look clost, a hare jumped in me face from undher the shtone. — Irish Wonders
I also wonder why a woman with such a large forehead has no brain. pooka Says: — Think Progress
Since the pooka fertilized the blackberries, — 3quarksdaily