booga hag

plural booga hags

1. alternativerareAlternative form of boo hag.

   2 more examples

   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.

   2005, Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair, →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.

   2014, Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings, →ISBN