Blue Burches
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Blue Burches is the name of a shapeshifting hobgoblin who played harmless pranks in the home of a shoemaker and his family on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. His usual form was that of an old man wearing baggy blue breeches but he also took the form of a white horse, a black pig and a wisp of blue smoke.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Robin Roundcap, Dobby, Brownies, Robin Goodfellow, Billy Blind
- manifests as
- hobgoblins
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Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“Blue Burches is the name of a shapeshifting hobgoblin who played harmless pranks in the home of a shoemaker and his family on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. His usual form was that of an old man wearing baggy blue breeches but he also took the form of a white horse, a black pig and a wisp of blue smoke.”
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