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Shakespeare's Puck, and His Folkslore (1)
Shakespeare's Puck and His Folkslore - 1 Author:William Bell Subtitle: Illustrated From the Superstitions of All Nations, but More Especially From the Earliest Religion and Rites of Northern Europe and the Wends Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Original Publisher: The author Subjects: Folklore in literature Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / S... more »hakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. " All ia hot gaistes and elriche fantasyis ; Of Brownys and of BogiMs full." Douglas's Virgil, viii. " Ghaist nor bogle shalt thou fear ; Thou'rt to love and heav'n so dear, Nocht of ill may come thee near, My bonnie dearie." Burns. It may, perhaps, at present be useless to inquire how the monosyllable Bog came to express, over an immense tract of the old globe, a supreme omnipresent and omniscient Deity. On the analogy of our English Big, it might first have been used as an expression of extension or greatness, undefined, because undefinable. All our English etymologists are strangely puzzled with this said little word big, beginning with In Ertsch and Gruber's Lexicon we have, a. v. Bog, Boh, and Huh, as synonyms; so that Bogle=Boh is a mere pleonasm, or intensitive, by repetition : on Soft, vide Jamieson's Scott. Diet. s. v. Bogill, 60, as the name of one of the most formidable Gothic generals, after Wharton, fec. fec. Compare Grimm's D. M., 1213, for the derivation of Bogatyr. 86 BOG, FROM DANISH BYGGEN. Junius, who filches it from the Greek /3ayaoe, through Skinner, from bug, which he says means, in Danish, belly; and Minshew, who calls it a contracted form of Dutch buychigh (German biiuchischis better), great-bellied; so numerous others, equally unsatisfactory. The probability is, that all t...« less