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Black Annis - (Leicestershire. C. J. Billson, Country Folk Lore, Leicestershire.) A malignant hag with a blue face and only one eye, very like the Cailleach Bheur in character. Her cave was in the Dane Hills, but has been filled up. She devoured lambs and young children. (back to top)
Black Dogs - The black dog is large - about the size of a young calf - black and shaggy, with fiery eyes. It does no harm if left alone; but anyone who speaks to it or touches it is struck senseless and dies soon thereafter. There are stories of the black dog from all over the country. One haunted the guard-room of Peel castle in Man. There are stories about it in Buckinghamshire. Hertford, Cambridge, Suffolk, Lancashire, Dorset, and Devon. There is a very good and full account of black dogs in English Fairy and Folk Tales. In the seventeenth century a pamphlet of Luke Hulton's described and attempted to explain the Black Dog of Newgate. (back to top)
Blue Men of the Minch - (Highland. D. Mackenzie, Scottish Folk Lore and Folk Life.) These men belong to the Minch, and particularly haunt the strait between Long Island and the Shiant Islands. They are a malignant kind of mermen, but they are blue all over. They come swimming out to seize and wreck ships that enter the strait; but a ready tongue, and particularly a facility in rhyming, will baffle them. They have no power over the captain who can answer them quickly and keep the last word. Beyond their activities as wreckers they conjure up storms by their restlessness. The weather is only fine when they are asleep. The islanders think they are fallen angels like the fairies and the Merry Dancers, as the Aurora Borealis is called there. (back to top)
Bodach - (Highland. J. G. Campbell, Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.) The Scottish form of a Bugbear or Bug-a-boo. He comes down the chimney to fetch naughty children. (back to top)
Boggart - A North Country Spirit. (Henderson, Folklore of the Northern Counties.) He is like a mischievous type of brownie. He is exactly the same as the poltergeist in his activities and habits. (back to top)
Bogle - The Scottish version of the Yorkshire boggart, though perhaps less exclusively domestic in his habits. (back to top)
Bogy beast - A general name boggarts, brashes, grants, and mischievous spirits. Widely distributed. (back to top)
Brash - See Skriker (back to top)
Brollochan - (J. F. Campbell, Popular Tales of the Western Highlands.) Brollochan is Gaelic for a shapeless thing. and it probably something like Reginald Scot's Boneless. There is a story of one, the child of a Fuath, told by Campbell. It is something the same plot as Ainsel. (back to top)
Brownie - The best known of the industrious domestic hobgoblins. The brownie's land is over all the North of England and up into the highlands of Scotland. The brownie is small, ragged and shaggy. Some say he has a nose so small as to be hardly more than two nostrils. He is willing to do all odd jobs about a house, but sometimes he untidies what he has been left to tidy. There are several stories of brownies riding to fetch the nurse for their mistress. The brownie can accept no payment, and the surest way to drive him away is to leave him a suit of clothes. Bread and milk and other dainties can be left unobtrusively, but even they must not be openly offered. The Cornish Browney is of the same nature. His special office is to get the bees to settle. When the bees swarm the housewife beats a tin, and calls out: 'Browney! Browney!' until the brownie comes invisibly to take charge. (back to top)
Brown Men of the Muirs - (Border Country. Henderson, Folklore of the Northern Counties.) A sprite of the moors, who guards the wild life, but is malignant and dangerous to man. (back to top)
Buccas or Knockers - (Cornish. Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England.) These are the spirits of the mines, something like the German Kobolds. They are said to be the spirits of the Jews who once worked the tin mines, and who are not allowed to rest because of their wicked practices. They are, however, friendly to the miners, and knock to warn them of disaster, and also show what seams are likely to be profitable. (back to top)
Bug-a-boo, Bugbear, Boggle-bo - There is a great variety of names for this bogle, which is generally used to frighten children into good behaviour. (back to top)
Bwbachod - The Welsh Brownie People. (W. Sikes, British Goblins (London 1880).) They are friendly and industrious, but they dislike dissenters and teetotalers. Sikes gives an amusing story of a bwbach and his quarrel with a Methodist minister. (back to top)
Cailleach Bheur - (The Blue Hag.) (Highland. D. Mackenzie, Scottish Folk Lore and Folk Life.) A giant hag who seems to typify winter, for she goes about smiting the earth with her st... ]]> ~tonight66