Bogy, or Bogey-beast is a malicious goblin, one name for the Devil, which was once in common use for frightening children. E.M.Wright in "Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore" (763) gives as an example: "If tha doesna leave off shrikin', I'll fetch a black bogy to thee", and cites a ghostly bogy which haunted its murderer as a skeleton, wailing: "Oi waant my booans! I waant my booans!" It was universal over England, but the use of cautionary demons and nursery bogies has gone out of fashion in modern education. Now 'bogy' serves as a generic name for bogies in general, including a number of frightening and mischievous characters: barguest, boggart, brag, buggan, buggane, hedley kow, mumpoker, padfoot, tanterabogus, trash, and so on. The respectable and mediocre Colonel Bogey, whose golf score is always dead average, seems to have no right to his name (1290: p.33).