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Forming an attachment in your formative years to Dennis Wheatley and his bestiary of bogles and goblins leaves an imprint on your soul and makes you susceptible to conspiracy theories everywhere.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2010

These bogles, unlike most fancy-free elves, are not bores; malice and eloquence save them from that un-Irish condition.

From Time Magazine Archive

All around is the immemorial home of kelpies, bogles, Warlocks, White Ladies.

From Time Magazine Archive

These bans an’ wafts an’ boh-ghosts an’ barguests an’ bogles an’ all anent them is only fit to set bairns an’ dizzy women a-belderin’.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

My grandsire gied Sandie a siller tester to pit in his gun wi’ the leid draps, bein’ mair deidly again bogles.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis