“ The boggart is the terror of children; and when a horse takes fright at some object unobserved by its master, the vulgar opinion is that it has "seen th' boggart." Originally, the strange disguises worn by the principal mummer and representative of the Bock of Yule, have given rise to the superstition respecting a terrible sprite, the Bocker, which becomes in the provincialism of Lancashire the boggat. ”