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Origins of the name Bognop?

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dodge one Oct 29, 2009 15:20:15

Replying to drewbhoy

drewbhoy wrote:

Its not a town but an area, Huntly being the main town which has the Stanning Stanes in it's square.

Any Boggarts to report from around those parts, then?
Us Boggart hunters want to know.
D1

;^)

drewbhoy Oct 29, 2009 23:30:27

Replying to dodge one

dodge one wrote:

drewbhoy wrote:

Its not a town but an area, Huntly being the main town which has the Stanning Stanes in it's square.

Any Boggarts to report from around those parts, then?
Us Boggart hunters want to know.
D1

;^)

At the beginning of Tam O Shanter by Rabbie Burns he mentions one, (ah schooldays and reciting this poem) :

"Of brownyis and bogillis full is this buke"

So there was obviously one in Ayrshire.

Bodach is another word meaning much the same thing. Is Paulus's image a boggart? I'm sure there's lots of naughty little people in Huntly, they are real bogeymen. And does this mean the River Bogie is full of water spirits, I wonder!