#bogeys

[a-book-of-creatures]

Could you tell us more about the boogeyman camel?

Why of course! The camel with a sack or baeer bu kharitah (بعير بو خريطة) is described in detail in Al Musallam (2017) Emirati Superstitious Creatures, and I am eternally thankful for an ABC reader for providing that source!

The camel with a sack appears during siesta time and catches Emirati children who are foolishly playing outside at that time. It traps them in its sack, either white (saliva) or red (the fleshy sack that camels extrude).

It carries the children around and releases them somewhere else after a period of time. They can be heard crying inside the sack at night. When they are released, it is often far away, and they forget their parents, so they cannot return home and they never stop crying.

The best way to escape it is to climb to the top of a palm tree, but then you face the problem of getting back down.

[bogeypedia]

NYKUR

AKA: Nykur Hestur (Nykur Horse), Nickur; Nennir, Ninnir (Ninny); Flóðhestur (Hippopotamus); Kumbur (Clump); Skolli (Devil); Vatnaskratti (Water Fiend)

The Nykur or Nennir is the water-horse of Iceland. It is found across the island in association with pools, lakes, ponds, rivers, and the sea, and accounts of its misdeeds date as far back as the Book of Settlements. [continue to A Book of Creatures]

[swamyworld]

Sports Tour of India, May 12: Aditi shoots 71, bogeys T-39 in Founders Cup at LPGA

GOLF Aditi shoots 71 at the Founders Cup on the LPGA, tied for T-39 Indian golfer Aditi Ashok returned a card of one-under 71 on day three to become tied-39 at the Cognizant Founders Cup at the LPGA. Aditi, who has had a modest season with a best finish of 21st at the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore in February, had five birdies against four bogeys in the round. Her previous rounds…

[mochimoonrabbit]

[tonyjwash]

The Golf Metaphor for Life...

If you have ever played the game of golf you know how challenging it can be. Unlike many other sports you cannot compensate for lack of technique with pure athleticism. The nature of the game is that you have to try and consistently hit a small unforgiving ball with a metal or graphite stick designed to go a certain distance. Add to that a requirement to try and hit the ball fairly straight…

[xenidraws]

Hello new followers! You guys liked Bogey, so here's his first Screenshot Saturday!

His twin engine airframe lets him tear through the skies… and with the right upgrades, he can light those cans for even longer! 🔥✈️

[alwayshinny]

Hinny 💐 - AU, where Hinny grows up together

It’s Blackinnon’s wedding. Harry is the ring barrier, while Ginny is the flower girl. They sneaking away during the celebration, holding hands, while discussing their future wedding plans and debate over cake flavors. Ginny tells Harry in a matter-of-fact voice that if they're going to get married, they have to practice their "wedding kiss". Harry shrugs his shoulders and just as he leans in, Ron jumps out from the bushes and asks them what they’re doing.

The following day, Ginny persuades Bill to teach her the bat-bogey hex.

[takearisk-x]

written for the @ladiesofhpfest Ginny Weasley Monthly Mini

Hexes took conviction. 

That wasn’t something taught in school. Flitwick hardly had a lecture series on how to bully classmates. No, this was something Ginny had to learn all on her own. It wasn’t like dark magic. She didn’t have to give a part of herself over to make it effective, but she definitely had to put belief behind it. That, she found, was when a hex turned from annoying to debilitating. When a mere nuisance could become a calamity. Putting every feeling of irritation, aversion, dislike, contempt, hatred, into the spell could---and would---manifest in her target ten-fold.

And Ginny didn’t have use for things that were only a minor inconvenience. She had no desire to throw hexes around without a purpose. If she was going to hex someone, they were going to deserve it. She wanted them running in the opposite direction. She wanted it to leave a mark. 

Only not enough of a mark to be sent to the infirmary. She had no desire to be in detention every other day. She wasn’t the twins. 

After a few trials and test runs, the Bat Bogey Hex became her retribution of choice. And soon, Ginny’s convictions went from calamitous to infamous. So much so, that she only had to glare at someone the exact right way before they backed down. 

It was a bit intoxicating, to be honest. To wield such a reputation. And Ginny liked to think she didn’t bestow her signature punishment on anyone who didn’t have it coming. 

(Like Zacharias Smith. The git.)

Which was why Ginny, in all her renown, felt completely equipped to stand in her Defense Against the Dark Arts class, look at her new professor---a Death Eater that had turned a school hallway into a battleground less than three months prior---and say “No. I won’t.”

Because a Bat Bogey Hex wasn’t just a Bat Bogey Hex, was it?

It was conviction.

[blackbirdi]

Harry Potter Incorrect Quotes #9

Ginny: Pass the salt.

Harry: *Sweetly* What's the magic word?

Ginny: *Pulling her wand out* Or else.

Harry: *Nervously passing her the salt* Here you go, love of my life.

[blamemma]

daniel ricciardo ahead of free practice one | 📍 jeddah corniche circuit, practice day | 📸 rudy carezzevoli

[a-book-of-creatures]

so I’ve stumbled across this critter named awd goggie in shin megami tensei, and it’s cropped up in other jrpgs. it’s apparently a scottish (or british? internet people are contradicting each other) faerie/demon/bogey/whatever that looks like a giant caterpillar and eats naughty kids who steal from orchards. do you have a source for this thing? I’m curious if it’s legit folklore or a peryton situation

It’s legit! But not a giant caterpillar, a generic bogey from Yorkshire. Awd means old, obviously, so his name means Old Goggie.

There is another wicked sprite, who comes in most usefully as a protector of fruit. His name is Awd Goggie, and he specially haunts woods and orchards. It is evident, therefore, that it is wise on the children's part to keep away from the orchard at improper times, because otherwise “Awd Goggie might get them.”

References

Gutch, M. (1912) County Folk-Lore, vol. VI: Concerning the East Riding of Yorkshire. David Nutt, London.

[pangeen]

" Daybreak " //© Lee Taylor

[dictee]

Daniel and louis give such jaded private detective who pulls like crazy despite the bad attitude / mysterious femme fatale who beneath the damsel in distress ingénue act is actually in on the plot but beneath the tough mastermind act is maybe a sweet girl in over her head. energy. to me

[cherrydreamer]

Thinking about a Season 4 scene where a rugged, bearded Billy strolls out of the Upside Down version of Steve's house.

He's wearing Mr. Harrington's monogrammed bathrobe and puffing on one of his cigars, and he doesn't even break a sweat as he takes down a stray Demobat with one well aimed swing of a fancy golf club.

[whogirl42]

Gotta say, one of my favourite things about 14x01 apart from the adorable babies was that they let the Doctor be an arsehole <3

[stilldoingscience]

he’s so comically large