Boggart

A boggart is an evil faerie creature somehow created from an unbaptized mortal child. It is, apparently, what becomes of certain children who are abducted by dark faeries.

Appearance

Boggarts look like twisted versions of mortal children between five and ten years old, with pointed teeth, feral eyes, and long fingernails hardened into sharp claws. They are hunched and gangling. Their skin is pallid and cold to the touch. They are usually naked and smudged with dirt.

Boggarts are as cruel as the worst mortal children: they take delight in terror and torture. They appeared in the story, Otho's Children.

Might Score

Boggarts apparently do not have a Might Score. In the story Otho's Children, they had no Magic Resistance to speak of, and were able to pass through Stranggore's Aegis of the Hearth without impediment.

Powers

Boggarts are supernaturally strong. Their claws are effective weapons, even against an armored man. Their skins are as hard as armor. Even so, a single boggart is no match for a capable and well-armed warrior.

The boggarts in Otho's Children were able to shrink John the Pedlar down to the size of a cat, though it's not clear if they had any help, such as an enchanted item, to do it.

See Also

Boggarts in English folklore at Wikipedia.