bodach

Mysterious and forboding shadow creatures from the dead that inhabit this world unseen, not yet ready to embrace they're final destiny. They are harbingers of death, destruction, and evil, the embodiment of Satan him/herself.
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In the room where the girls were sleeping soundly he could see five bodachs hovering over the bed menacingly.

(from "Odd Thomas", Dean Koontz novel)

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bodach

Scots "bode-ach", originally Gaelic "bott-ach"

An affectionate/neutral term for an old man. Can also be used in the diminutive form "bodachan", referring to someone too old and insignificant to useful, or "bod", referring to a short man. "Bodach glas" (pale old man) can also refer to a ghost or spectre.

One of the 282 Munro's is called "Am Bodach" (uhm bott-ach), which translates simply to the "The Old Man".

"Come inside from the rain, you sleekit bodach!"
"That bodachan in the shop short-changed me when I was picking up my messages."

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Bodach

A creature from Scottish lore something like the bogeyman resembling an old man who comes down the chimney at night to kidnap or torment bad and naughty children. If a child gets taken by the bodach, he/she is gone forever. He is used by parents to frighten bad children into good behavior. He'll only bother bad and naughty children. The best defense to keeping the bodach from coming into the house is by putting salt in the hearth since he can't cross salt.

Be good or else the bodach will get you.