Sprite of Irish folklore

Usage examples of pooka.

I was flat out hoping for a dozen boggarts, and fifty pookas, and a whole herd of Hedley Kows, and all those other creatures Evan had told us about on the drive down.

If there should be a boggart in New York, he will find your house, I assure you, as any pooka in London will know your name.

The Other One came right up to the Pooka amd mounted right behind me, wrapping his long arms around me.

I sat up fast, groping around for my bedside lamp, thinking boggarts and pookas and Hedley Kows.

So they went underground, at a place called Brugh na Boinne in County Meath, and over time became the Daoine Sidh: the fairies and pookas and Fir Darrigs and leprechauns-yes, and the cluricaunes too.

Me, I'd found a paperback about the Irish revolution and how de Valera raised pookas against the British.

The Pooka got bored with the weasel and became a little gray rabbit with yellow eyes.

In Xanth there were night mares and pookas and were-horses and sea-horses and hippogryphs and centaurs and unicorns and flying horses, and the original stock had been crossbred out of existence.

The Pookas, however, had no trouble with human speech, if you didn't mind the eerie bass harp monotone.

But, other than a taste for the same music and the love of a good beat, what do we and the Pookas have in common?

There are pookas and banshees and the whole lot of them, all of them passing the ages in the ways that amuse them.

There the pookas and fairies still held sway, marshalling spells and riddles to entrap the arrogant who had inherited the upper world.