Editing Boggart (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:The Three Jovial Huntsmen Postcard A3.jpg|thumb|Postcard illustration by [[Randolph Caldecott]] from {{circa}} 1914 for the poem "[[The Three Jovial Huntsmen]]", depicting the huntsmen encountering a "boggart"]]

=== Fiction ===
Boggarts feature prominently in a number of popular [[Fantasy literature|fantasy novels]], in various incarnations.<ref>Young (2022), entire Chapter 8 - "The New Boggart"</ref> These include the boggart in [[Susan Cooper]]'s ''[[The Boggart]]'' and ''The Boggart and the Monster'', the boggart in the [[Septimus Heap]] series, the boggarts in [[Joseph Delaney]]'s ''[[Spook's]]'' series, the boggart in [[William Mayne]]'s ''Earthfasts,'' and the boggarts in [[Tasha Tudor]]'s [[Welsh Corgi|Corgi]]-related picture books.

A boggart appears in [[Peter S. Beagle]]'s novel ''[[Tamsin_(novel)|Tamsin]]''. He is described as a humanoid creature about a meter high who resents humans moving into his house and torments them with pranks and thievery. It seems he can become invisible at first, but it is later determined that he can hide in narrow cracks such as those between cupboards and under bathtubs. As are many magical creatures in the book, the boggart is mortally afraid of cats.

The [[Magical creatures in Harry Potter#Boggarts|boggarts]] in [[J. K. Rowling]]'s ''[[Harry Potter]]'' are shape-shifters whose true form is unknown, that change shape to resemble their beholder's worst fear (possibly inspired by the "clutterbumph" in [[Paul Gallico]]'s [[Manxmouse]]). They are unlike most boggarts of British folklore, whose appearance is fixed. Their closest parallel for a boggart able to change shape at will is probably to be found in a reference to a Lancashire boggart in the book ''Lancashire Folklore'' of 1867.<ref name="harland p55" /> 

In some contemporary fantasy fiction and films such as ''[[The Spiderwick Chronicles]]'', [[Mark Del Franco]]'s Convergent World books, and the fantasy writing of [[Juliana Horatia Ewing|Juliana Horatio Ewing]], boggarts are [[Brownie (folklore)|brownies]] who have been angered or become malevolent. This has been adopted into folklore studies but is not found in traditional sources.<ref>Young, The Boggart, 203-207; https://writinginmargins.weebly.com/home/can-brownies-become-boggarts 'Can Brownies Become Boggarts'</ref>

=== Film and television ===
In the 2014 fantasy film ''[[Seventh Son (film)|Seventh Son]]'' an enormous malevolent boggart attacks the protagonists while they are on their journey to find the antagonist character. Boggarts also appear in the film's original source material, ''[[The Spook's Apprentice]]''. In the [[CITV]] children's show ''[[The Treacle People]]'', boggarts are furry, gremlin-like creatures that originate from the Treacle Mines. They are mischievous, frequently playfighting and causing a mess. They serve as pets, friends and pests to the townspeople. They have the ability to walk up walls and other inclined surfaces due to their feet, which resemble plungers. ''[[Kamen Rider Wizard]]'' features a villain of the week based on the boggart.

=== Games ===
In the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' card game's [[Lorwyn]] block, the native goblins of the plane are called boggarts. In role-playing games, the boggart appeared as the immature form of a [[Will-o'-wisp (Dungeons & Dragons)|will-o'-wisp]] with shape-shifting abilities in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''<ref>[[Gary Gygax|Gygax, Gary]]. ''[[Monster Manual II]]'' ([[TSR, Inc.|TSR]], 1983)</ref> as well as [[Necromancer Games]].<ref>{{cite book | last1=Green | first1=Scott| last2=Peterson| first2=Clark<!--| authorlink2=Clark A. Peterson-->| title=Tome of Horrors| publisher=Necromancer Games| year=2002 | pages=26–27 | isbn=1-58846-112-2}}</ref> A boggart appears in the game ''[[Home Safety Hotline]]'' <ref name="Wolens" />