booga hag

English

Noun

booga hag (plural booga hags)

  1. (rare) Alternative form of boo hag.
    • 2005, Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair‎[1], →ISBN:
      The blue was supposed to scare away the Booga Hag – a haunting spirit said to suck the soul out of you during the night. I doubted that Hepzibah believed in the Booga Hag, but she loved the old Gullah ways. And just in case the blue doors didn’t deter the Hag, Hepzibah had planted a row of conch shells in her garden.
    • 2014, Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings‎[2], →ISBN:
      I watched as Binah, the nursery mauma, tucked my clothes into the heavy old wardrobe, recalling how she used a fire poke to rock Charles’ cradle, her cowrie shell bracelets rattling along her arms while she terrified us with tales of the Booga Hag—an old woman who rode about on a broom and sucked the breath from bad children.
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