• A bodach (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈpɔt̪əx]; plural bodaich "old man; rustic, churl, lout"; Old Irish botach) is a trickster or bogeyman figure...
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    Environment (Canmore), Tigh Nam Bodach, Archaeology Notes, https://canmore.org.uk/site/23898/tigh-nam-bodach Tigh nam Bodach stones of Glen Cailliche get...
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    Am Bodach is a Scottish mountain which lies in the Mamores range, four kilometres north of Kinlochleven in the Highland council area. Am Bodach is a Munro...
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    Scarecrow (redirect from Bodach-rocais)
    England Gallybagger. Isle of Wight Tattie Bogal. Isle of Skye Tattie bogle.> Bodach-rocais (lit. "old man of the rooks"). Scotland Mommet. Somerset Mawkin....
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  • Early Modern Irish (16th or 17th century, Egerton MS 154) Fenian tale. The bodach is a trickster figure, consort or male analogue of the cailleach ("hag")...
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  • with him. One day, he plays shinty with a grey old man named Bodach Glas and loses. Bodach Glas tells the prince to bring a silver shinty and a golden...
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    Orchestra and Russell Keable on 24 June 2013. Old Man of Storr and The Storr Bodach an Stoir (The Old Man of Storr) The Old Man of Storr, Skye Old Man of Storr...
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  • powers to make himself rich. He once met a boy who also saw bodachs but when the bodachs realized this, they seemed to cause a fatal accident, killing...
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    17335674. From Allt-na-reigh near the head of Glen Coe a good path ascends Am Bodach (a subsidiary Munro top) and continues westwards along the ridge to the...
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  • murder of Donald Dubh Cameron, XV Chief of Clan Cameron, in 1569. John Bodach M'Iain V'Ewen Cameron, 3rd of Erracht was also executed on the orders of...
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