"boggart" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1787, William Collins, “Song XXV: A Lancaſhire Farmer's deſcription of an Earthquake”, in The New Vocal Miscellany, or, A Fountain of Pure Harmony; Containing Sixty New Songs, page 32:",
          "text": "OH! Maeſter—ſtrange things late I've ſeen— / And oft has boggart-haunted been ! / I'm ſure I's falt when ſtory's-tauld, / 'Till blude run aw' through veins ſo cauld !",
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          "ref": "1821, Lee Gibbons, chapter III, in The Cavalier, volume II, page 48:",
          "text": "“[…]Are na ye shamed, ye weak gawly, that yc darena stir ower the threshold for fear of a boggart?”",
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          "ref": "1897 August 5, Harwood Brierley, “The Swale and Its Waterfalts”, in Sylvanus urban, editor, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume CCLXXXIII, page 191:",
          "text": "Hoggart's Leap is a weird name, suggesting to the uninitiated some connection with a local tradition and a boggart or a barguest of Swaledale renown ; but I believe that Hoggart is really a family name, there being Hoggarth's Farm about two miles further up the Swale.",
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          "text": "[…]but when it came to a question of standing up against the boggart of Arden—a thing, in the popular imagination, composed of neither flesh, blood, nor bones—even a physical giant had qualms and misgivings, and so had Joseph Wand.",
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