boggans

Over it preside the "boggans" or "bullocks" of Plough Monday (see p. 352), headed by a figure known as "My Lord," who is attended by a fool.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

-- Snowing heavy, and rime on our to boggans makes heavy travelling.

Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador Mina Benson Hubbard 1913

For every one carried off the field the boggans forfeit half-a-crown, which is spent in beer, doubtless by the men of the particular hamlet who have carried off the hood. "

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

"The object is to carry them off the field away from the boggans.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles