TiP breakup(s)/Mobiliarbus/Name of Padfoot

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:

> and I asked whether that means that 'Padfoot' is a common word 
> in British English, and
> 
> --- In harrypotteranonymous at y..., "InkyWings" <inkywings at e...> wrote:
> > I don't know how Padfoot is used in Great Britain (I lived there 
> > during grad school but never noticed it in the vernacular), BUT in
> > the south and on Indian Reservations (at least the one where I was
> > born) it means a wanderer.  Sort of like "tramp" or "romeo."  They
> > also use Paddlefoot. 
> 
> and then 
> 
> --- In harrypotteranonymous at y..., I <catlady at w...> wrote:
> > snip a cute answer,
Katherine Briggs, in An Encyclopedia of Fairies, has an entry for 
Padfoot, classing it as a bogey or bogey-beast common about Leeds. It 
is said to be a death-warning, and to take various shapes, including a 
=white= dog with big saucer eyes.
Pippin