Puck (mythology)

Puck is a mischievous pre-Christian nature spirit. The pagan trickster was reimagined in Old English puca (Christianized as "devil") as a kind of half-tamed woodland sprite, leading folk astray with echoes and lights in nighttime woodlands (like the Celtic/French "White Ladies", the Dames Blanches), or coming into the farmstead and souring milk in the churn.

External links

• A Puck website gives the text of early 17th century ballads of Robin Goodfellow.
• A folklore page, with a 1639 Puritan image of a demonized Puck