What is "pookas"

Usage examples of "pookas".

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.

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.