Crossword clues for pooka
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A fairy that appears in animal form, often large. It appears only to some people. Etymology 2
n. A convenient storage location or hiding spot created by the arrangement or form of surrounding objects
Wikipedia
Pooka or Púca is a faery creature of Celtic folklore.
Pooka may also refer to
- Pooka (band), British pop duo
- Pooka, a race of rabbit-like beings in Odin Sphere
- Pooka, an cute enemy in Dig Dug
- Pooka, a fictional dog in Anastasia
- Pooka, a kith in Changeling: The Dreaming
- Pooka, an invisible rabbit friend of Elwood P. Dowd, the principal character in the movie Harvey
Pooka was the former songwriting duo of UK guitarists/vocalists Sharon Lewis and Natasha Jones. They took their name from Púca, a mythical Irish goblin with an uneven temper.
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.