Mrs Wright in Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore mentions Pokey-Hokey of East Anglia among her frightening figures, together with Knocky-Boh and Mumpoker. It is possible that the colloquial phrase, 'There's been some hokey-pokey about this', may derive from this goblin, though it could be the other way round.

An Irish fairy spell, by which a man's senses are bemused, so that he sees things entirely different from what they are in actuality. The Fir Darrig is a master at pishogues, and the tale of the Fir Darrig in Donegal is a good example, but pishogues are thickly scattered through the Fenian legends. In English it is called glamour, and examples of it are to be found in Malory and in many English folktales.

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See Pechs.

See Pixies.

See Changelings.

A Perthshire urisk from which the place-name Abcrfeldy is said to be taken. The whole tribe of evil spirits of this type are called fuath. Most of them haunt rivers, lochs or the sea-shore. Donald Mackenzie in Scottish Folk-Lore and Folk Life has a chapter on these Fuath. A Lowland form of Peallaidh is Shellycoat. In the Gaelic dialect of Lewis, 'Pwllardh' is used for the Devil, as Puck or 'Pouk' was in Middle English.

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