With the exception of the proverbs and legends, few traces of [Northamptonshire Bogie] remain; and time, which has cast a lenient eye upon his fellows, has been particularly hard upon the domestic spirit. His name, it is true, has yet terrors for unruly children; but what a degradation for a goblin wluo was formerly the dread of full-grown ones! The same waves among which tradition has assigned a resting place for the disorderly spirits of our ancestors, have also been the place of exile of the Bogies. ‘What has become of all these spirits?’ said we to a promising specimen of the genus rusticus, on whom we had been pursuing our researches. ‘What, arnt you heerd?’ was the response. ‘No,’ said we, with an ignorant look, expecting to elicit some inedited legend respecting their gradual extinction. ‘Why, then, I’ll tell ’e: a deadly long time ago, the paasons all laid their yeads togither, and hiked ’em of to the Red Saa.’ Sternberg, 141