Boggarts, was Re: Susan Cooper (OT)

[Vivienne O'Regan]

No: HPFGUIDX 6336

Interestingly was just looking up Boggarts entry in Katherine 
Briggs, 'Abbey Lubbers, Banshees and Boggarts' and discovered in the 
section on brownies that their description almost perfectly matches 
that of the 'house-elf' including the gift of clothing being the key 
to driving them away. I had thought the description of 'house elf' 
had been more brownie than elf-like.


Vivienne 

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Dinah" <mzettl at f...> wrote:
> I haven't read Susan Cooper's book. But that's what I found out 
about
> Boggarts:
> 
> Boggart
> 
> Mistreated brownies that have turned evil. They often ravage the 
house, and
> the only way to surely rid oneself of them is to evacuate the 
residence,
> taking care that the Boggart does not follow along with the 
household
> belongings.
> 
> It also seems to be a certain frog species.
> 
> But I don't know how accurate the definition is.
> 
> Dinah