Bodach
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A ( ; plural "old man; rustic, churl, lout"; Old Irish ) is a trickster or bogeyman figure in Gaelic folklore and mythology. The "old man" is paired with the "hag, old woman" in Irish legend.
A ( ; plural "old man; rustic, churl, lout"; Old Irish ) is a trickster or bogeyman figure in Gaelic folklore and mythology. The "old man" is paired with the "hag, old woman" in Irish legend.
Name
(Old Irish also ) is the Irish word for a tenant, a serf or peasant. It is derived from (Old Irish ) "tail, penis". The word has alternatively been derived from both "cottage, hut" (probably a borrowing from Old Norse, as is English booth). The term "tenant farmer" is thus equivalent to a cotter (the of the Domesday Book); a was a half-free peasant of a lower class. In either case, the name is formed by the addition of nominal suffix ("connected or involved with, belonging to, having"). In modern Gaelic, simply means "old man", often used affectionately. In the , one " the Eternal" is king of Mag Mell. This name is derived from "victorious" and unrelated to in origin. However, the two names may have become associated by the early modern period, as Manannan is also named king of Mag Mell, and the figure in (17th century) is in turn identified with Manannan.
References in popular culture
s are seen at the beginning of Moonshine by Rob Thurman. s occasionally appear in Charles de Lint's books of mythic fiction. The term is used to describe shadow-like or "ink like" creatures—invisible to most people—that appear at locations before disasters in the books Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, and Saint Odd by Dean Koontz. These can be seen only by Odd. s appear as evil goblin spearmen, in Alan Garner's fantasy novel The Moon of Gomrath, in which they have shining bald heads, bodies covered in flat locks of hair and the legs of birds.
See also
Bodak, an undead creature in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game Brownie (folklore), a domestic spirit in British folklore , a divine hag, a creator deity, a weather deity, and an ancestor deity in Gaelic mythology Wirry-cow, a bugbear or demon in Scottish folklore
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