CAUTION! This book contains disgusting Bogles .

2. CAUTION! This book contains disgusting Bogles. Ballybogs or Bogles (b oh g uh l s) are small brown Irish fairies and are reputedly covered in mud. They get their names from the peat bogs in which they dwell.

3. The Bogle by W D Cocker There’s a bogle by the bour-tree at the lang loan heid, I canna thole the thocht o him, he fills ma heart widreid; He skirls like a hoolet, an he rattles aa his banes, An gieshimsel an uncofash to fricht wee weans. • elder tree, top of the long track • bear • dread • howls, owl • takes great trouble to frighten

4. Barnaby really doesn’t like bogles. They’re dirty, smelly and rude. His Granny Hogsflesh (Ho –Flay) might be half bogle herself, but having accidently-on-purpose pickled her evil cousin, she’s made the other bogles really angry. Now they want revenge… Can Barnaby stop them?

5. The Dark Side of Pickling • Animal Gases – For stunning potential enemies • Indo-Chinese Warty Pig Burp – A burning gas. Causes painful snorting if inhaled. • Java Warty Pig Burp – As above, but double the strength. • Selected Worm Burps – Affects the central nervous system, causing involuntary muscle spasms. • Tarantula Trumps – Toxic fumes leading to confusion, dizziness and eventual madness. • Free range Turkey Trumps – One whiff can knock a fully grown man to his knees.Toenails – Pickled in poison – Extremely Dangerous​ • Giant terrapin toenails – A curved scythe. Highly durable. • Rat toenail – Thin, long and razor sharp. • Emu toenail – A lethal bayonet. • Old man toenail – Usually in the form of clippings. Yellow in colour, cheesy in odour and deadly on delivery.

6. Things to do • How to catch a bogle • Recipes for real and ‘dark’ pickles • Wanted posters • Explanations for how pickling machines work. • Settings • Biography of author • Maps • Scottish Poetry • Draw, name and describe a bogle