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n. (context UK English) A storm spirit in Cornish folklore, formerly believed to inhabit mines and coastal communities.
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Bucca is a fairy in Cornish folklore that was believed to be a spirit that inhabited mines and coastal communities as a hobgoblin during storms. The mythogological creature is linked to the Púca from Irish and Welsh folklore. Rev W. S. Lach-Szyrma, one 19th-century writer on Cornish antiquities, suggested the Bucca had originally been an ancient pagan deity of the sea, though his claims are mainly conjecture.
Neopagan groups, principally the Witchcraft coven of Ros An Bucca, have begun to acknowledge the Bucca in their rites.
In the children's book Thomas and the Tinners by Jill Paton Walsh, Buccas have become fairies who work in Cornish tin mines, granting wishes in exchange for food (see knockers).
Bucca may refer to:
- Bucca (mythological creature), a mythological creature of Cornish origin
- Bucca, pioneering Cornish folk group
- Bucca, seventh-century founder of Buckingham
- Camp Bucca, a U.S. military prison camp in Iraq
- Cheek, Latin term being bucca
Usage examples of "bucca".
The remarkable story of FDNY Fire Marshal Ronnie Bucca was drawn from dozens of interviews with his brother firefighters in Rescue One, the marshals of the Bureau of Fire Investigation, and personnel with whom he worked as a U.
A veteran firefighter himself, Bucca had investigated the original WTC bombing in 1993 - and had come away convinced that the perpetrators would return to finish the job.
Despite the fact that he had a Top Secret security clearance as a warrant officer in a high-level Army Reserve intelligence unit, Bucca was repeatedly frozen out by members of the NYPD-FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force, one of the key Bureau units hunting Yousef.
Now, astonishingly, on that morning, as Nancy Floyd watched from the George Washington Bridge, Ronnie Bucca was on the seventy-eighth floor of the South Tower with a hose in his hand, trying to beat back the flames.
THE FLYING FIREFIGHTER Just after noon on September 16, 1986, Ronnie Bucca was working as an outside vent man on the day tour at Rescue One, the busiest heavy rescue company in New York City.
The force of the impact flipped Bucca 180 degrees and partially broke his fall.
In the same trauma center that had treated Ronnie Bucca years before, doctors worked on the two men, shooter and victim, in parallel ER cubicles.
A decorated Special Forces paratrooper, Bucca had maintained his reserve status since his discharge from active duty in 1975.
In 1989, then a Special Forces first sergeant, Bucca transferred to the 242nd MI Battalion on Staten Island.
TRUTH FROM THE ASHES The drums were beginning to pound, and though he was a firefighter by profession, Ronnie Bucca was starting to hear them.
This was the company that Bucca had fought so hard to get back into, and he would take his children there so that they could appreciate it in the same way he did.
In his first day of class at the Fire Academy, Ronnie Bucca listened as his instructor told the story of the blaze that broke out in the cutting room on the eighth floor of the Asch Building on the afternoon of March 25, 1911.
Ronnie Bucca, the ex - Green Beret paratrooper, had made dozens of rescues in his twenty years on the job.
ICE WATER AND BOMBS While Ronnie Bucca began his first weeks on the job as an FDNY fire marshal, Ramzi Yousef was halfway around the world plotting to use his skills as a bomb maker to wreak havoc for the jihad.
In his first few months in the BFI, Ronnie Bucca began to distinguish himself as an investigator.