Puck
Puck is a mischievous fairy from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
↻ synthesized from 7 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 CE
- Attested period
- 500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Shakespeare's lifetime.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Queen Mab, Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Mustardseed, Mote, Psychopomp, Púca, Pūķis, Python, hobgoblins, lemmüz, Kratti, Robin Goodfellow, Old Hobden, fairies, kobalos, kabeiroi, kerkopes, gobelinus, Oberon, Titania
- manifests as
- domestic sprites, nature sprites
- syncretized with
- Schrat, kratt, Bwbach, Nordic gnomes, Nordic wights
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Puck A mischievous fairy from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream”
#4319 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Puck (English) – House spirit”
#5257 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Shakespeare identifies the character of Puck in his A Midsummer Night's Dream as a hobgoblin.”
#34487 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Kratt is related to the Germanic and Slavic Schrat (cf. Estonian Swedish skrat, Polish: skrzat), also known as Puck (cf. Estonian: puuk, Swedish: puke, Low German: Puk), but also Nordic gnomes and wights, and they likewise sometimes transform into firedrakes”
#34599 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The character of Puck frames the tales in Rudyard Kipling's short story cycles Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)...the elf named Puck displays a propensity for mischief and sardonic humor. Physically he resembles a traditional fairy or sprite.”
#34637 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5