barghest

How to use barghest in a sentence

• The word is variously written, barguest and boguest being amongst its forms.

  Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-lore | Charles Hardwick

• He seems to unite in his person the Boggart and Barguest of Yorkshire.

  The Fairy Mythology | Thomas Keightley

• The Barguest used also to appear in the shape of a mastiff-dog and other animals, and terrify people with his skrikes (shrieks).

  The Fairy Mythology | Thomas Keightley

• We now proceed to Yorkshire, where the Boggart and the Barguest used to appear in by-gone days.

  The Fairy Mythology | Thomas Keightley

• The belief in the “barguest,” now practically gone, was in comparatively recent times common enough to excite but little notice.

  Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland | Daniel Scott