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the shapeshifting Irish trickster who'd ruin your harvest or save your life on a whim
means A mischievous shapeshifting spirit of Irish folklore, often appearing as a black horse, goat, or hare, that can bring either good or ill fortune depending on its mood.
from From Irish 'púca,' meaning a hobgoblin or sprite. The name belongs to a wide family of Celtic and Germanic bogey-words — it's a cousin of the Welsh 'pwca' and likely related to the Old English 'puca,' the same root that gave us Shakespeare's Puck. Whether all these wandering spirits share a single ancient ancestor or simply traded names across folklore over centuries is uncertain, but the family resemblance — small, tricky, and not to be trusted near your crops — runs deep.
- shape game
- Appears as horse, goat, dog, or dark rabbit
- harvest rule
- Crops left after November belong to it
- hollywood debut
- Jimmy Stewart's invisible six-foot rabbit in Harvey
- the bargain
- Speaks human, offers wild rides and grim prophecies
pooka from irish folklore — shapeshifting creature from celtic mythology that appears in irish stories as a dark horse or other animal forms
pooka 1994 film — supernatural horror film starring john lithgow about a malevolent entity haunting an apartment building