What is a Phooka? 

Would you know one if you saw one?

1. In human form they have black shaggy hair and wild black or yellow eyes.
2. Often they manifest themselves are a shaggy black horse or pony and willingly let humans ride them only to dump them into a river or swamp.
3. As tricksters, they delight in playing pranks and practical jokes. Their jokes can range from mildly annoying to down right deadly.
4. In their natural state they are humanoid, however these shapeshifters rarly show humans their true form. Common forms they take include: horses, ponies, eagles, vultures, rocs, rooks, wolves, panthers, jaguars, goats, bulls, and most any black bird or animal.
5. Beware of black animals that appear unusually wild-looking, shaggy, are not native to the area, or are abnormally larger than they should be. Chances are they are really a Phooka in disguise.
6. Due to their shapeshifting ability that can change thier coloring to blend in with their surrounding, thus seeming to render themselves invisable.
7. Animals and birds tend to be extremely frightened of Phookas. When hens stop laying eggs and cows stop giving milk it is usually due to a Phooka haveing entered the barn and frightened them.
8. Some Phookas, though not all, are able to breath fire or set fire to things at will. Any animals that suddenly breaths fire, is likely to be a Phooka in disguise.
9. If your town suffers from a series of unexplained fires, it is likly that a Phooka is living in your town and was offened by the people living in the houses which burned.
10. A Phooka can take the form of any living creature, including humans. If you best friend suddenly begins acting very strangly, it may actually be a Phooka posing as your friend. Phookas often take on a human's form when angered by that particular human. While in a human's form, they often do things in attempt to ruin that human's reputation. This can very from simple joke playing to actual crimes such as robbery and murder.
11. Phookas are very vengeful creatures. Though often harmless when left alone, they can become extremely dangerous when offened, hurt, or angered. It is best to never get a Phooka mad at you as they can physically turn themselves into your worst nightmare than take up residance under our bed or in your closet and torment you each night.
12. Phookas should never be allowed to taste flesh or blood. Once they have they can become deadly, hunting down, killing, and eating their victims. Some Phookas may hunt down humans in a very vampire-like manner.
13. Like most races from the Realm of Fae, Phookas do not express human emotions. They may cry at weddings and laugh at funerals. Thier words may be hurtful but they do not realise this. Often what they find to be funny, humans find to be apauling or horrific. Rarely do they form emotional attachments.
14. One meaning of the word Phooka is: imaginary or invisable friend. This being due to the fact that it is not uncommon for them to develope a strange loyalty to a single human being, becoming that human's friend and guardian, but only revealing themself to that one human and remain "invisable" to all other humans. They often live in an object owned by said being, such as a trunk or under the bed.
15. You may find them living in odd places, such as in hollow trees or closets or under beds or in old trucks in the attic. They tend to dislike sleeping on a bed and well often sleep on the floor beneath the bed instead.

Pan: The First Phooka? 

The ancient god Pan is said by some traditions to be the first Phooka. The name Pan bacame Puk over the centuries and as time went on both his name and the stories about him, began to change.

Pan became Puk.

Puk became Puka.

Puka became Pooka.

Pooka became Phooka.

And thus we see the name change from Pan to Phooka over the centuries.

But who was Pan? Carol & Dinah Mack have this to say:

Pan

Pan is closely linked with the satyrs, a rough, shaggy, goatlike species with demonical natures associated with contiuous orgies. Both Pan and the satyrs are associated with the pagan god Dionysus and the bacchanalia. These spirits of excess resemble the goatlike shedim and seirim (demons shunned by the ancient Jews) and contribute to the later image of Christians' horned, hirsute, goat-hoofed Devil.

Pan is also linked to the Italian Faunus, a mischievous woodland spirit associated with fertility and worshipped in ancient Rome. Pan, a powerful pagan spirit, is profoundly connected to the gecundity of both the woods and population.

Pan, free and untamable, was filled with and driven by wild insatiable lust. Though his advances were not infrequently rejected, and his nymphs metamorphosed to escape, his myrid of exploits were sometimes successful. One love affair with the nymph Pitys ended unhappily only when she was turned into a pine tree. Unremorseful, he pursued Echo ans as the nymph ran away from him made such hideous noies that a "pan-ic" spread through the forest and caused a group of frenzied shepherds to tear Echo apart, leaving only her voice.


Carol k. Mack & Dinah Mack, A Feld Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels, and Other Subversive Spirits (1989)

Phookas Accourding to Brian Froud 

Brian Froud is by far the world's top athority on the Realm of Fae and it's many races. He has devoted his life to the study and collecting of folklores, myths, and legends regarding faeries. When a final word is needed about any race from the Realm of Fae, Brian Froud is the man to ask. Of Phookas, he has this to say:

Phooka

The Phooka is an Irish goblin with a variety of rough beast-like forms. He appears sometimes as a dog or a horse, or even a bull, but he is generally jet-black with blazing eyes. As a seemingly friendly, shaggy, sway-back pony Phooka offers the unwary traveller a welcome lift; but once astride he is taken for a wild and terrifying gallop across the wettest and most thorny country, eventually to be dumped hedlong into the mire or deposited in a ditch. The chuckle is that of the Phooka as he gallops away. Phooka sometimes takes the form of an eagle and carries men on his back.


~~Brian Froud , Faeries (1978)

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Phookas Accourding to Carol Rose: 

Not quite as well known as Brian Froud, Carol Rose, likewise has done extensive research into the Realm of Fae and it's various races.She wrote a 2 volum encyclopida which gives brief details of nearly every Faerie Race that has ever existed at any point in history, in nearly every coner of the globe. Of Phookas she has this to say:

Pooka, Pouka

This is the name of a mostrous water horse in the folklore of Ireland. This supernatural is also known as Phooka, Pwca, and Puca. The Pooka is described as a horse or a shaggy-haired colt that may be hung about with chains or water weed. He is said to haunt wild places, the edges of lakes, and streams, where he will try to entice children to mount his back; if they do, he will race off with them straight into the water or even over a precipice.

Curiously, there is an account of a Pooka doing work as a horse in the fields for a poor farmer.

On the Celtic feast of Samhain (1 November), the Pooka in the shape of a horse, was said to trample the remaining blackberries and give prophetic answers to those humans who might consult him.

See also: Brownie, Hedley Kow, Household Spirit, Kelpie, Picktree Brag, Spirit


~~Carol Rose; Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins (1996)

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What Wikipedia has to say about Phookas: 

According to legend, the phooka is an adroit shape changer, capable of assuming a variety of terrifying forms. It may appear as a horse, rabbit, goat goblin or dog. No matter what form the phooka takes, its fur is almost always dark. (its name is a cognate of the early Irish 'poc', 'a male goat', and it lends its name to Puck, the goat-footed satyr made famous in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream), but it most commonly takes the form of a sleek black horse with a flowing mane and glowing yellow eyes. [1]

If a human is enticed onto a phooka's back it has been known to give them a wild ride. But unlike a kelpie, the phooka will do the unfortunate rider no real harm. The kelpie on the other hand will take its rider and dive into the nearest river or lake drowning the person and then devouring them. The Púca has the power of human speech, and has been known to give advice and lead people away from danger. Though the phooka enjoys confusing and often terrifying humans, it is considered to be benevolent.

Certain agricultural traditions surround the Púca. It is a creature associated with Samhain, the third Pagan (Celtic, Wiccan) Harvest Festival, when the last of the crops is brought in. Anything remaining in the fields is considered "puka," or fairy-blasted, and hence inedible. In some locales, reapers leave a small share of the crop, the "púca's share," to placate the hungry creature. Nonetheless, November Day (November 1) is the Púca's day, and the one day of the year when it can be expected to behave civilly.

In some regions, the Púca is spoken of with considerably more respect than fear; if treated with due deference, it may actually be beneficial to those who encounter it. The Púca is a creature of the mountains and hills, and in those regions there are stories of it appearing on November Day and providing prophecies and warnings to those who consult it.

In the classic Jimmy Stewart film "Harvey", the title character Harvey is a pooka, in the form of a very tall human-shaped white rabbit. There is a humorous scene in which Mr. Wilson, The asylum Orderly, reads the definition of pooka, which ends in "How are you mr. Wilson?" This provides the notion that harvey is real.

In Emma Bull's 1987 book, War for the Oaks, the Phouka is a mischievous but ultimately trustworthy shapechanger who takes the form of a large black dog.

In The Spiderwick Chronicles, the phooka is a shapeshifter creature that resembles a black rabbit/monkey-like creature that is smarter then his speech can demonstrante.

In the 1959 Disney film Darby O'Gill and the Little People, Darby's horse turns into a pookah. The first time the horse transforms, it frightens Darby into falling down a well, where he first encounters King Brian and the land of the leprechauns. The second time, the horse causes Darby's daughter Katie to fall and be injured, which leads to Darby's final deal with King Brian and the ultimate "happily ever after" resolution.

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Esmerald BlackBird

Phookas are the most feared creatures from the Realm of Fae. BlackBird is the most feared of them all.

Phookas and The Twighlight Manor series 

Esmerald BlackBird

I have vampires in most of my books... however, they are not the traditional undead "Dracula-style" vampires and I never call them vampires, though other characters in the story might call them that. By most tradtions they are not even vampires at all, but rather more vampire-like.

My second most used "vampire" is being used in my NaNoWriMo novel this year (2007). He is not a human, nor is he a vampire. He is not an undead human, or a demon sent to walk the earth, or anything like that. He is a faerie, a Phooka to be exact.

A Phooka is a very dangerous and often violent shapeshifting trickster from Celtic myth, known for their ability to change into great fearsome black animals so that they can scare humans.

Some Phookas take a liking to humans and just play harmless pranks (like Harvey the rabbit of Jimmy Stewart movie fame) other Phookas are blood-thirsty creatures would lure humans to their doom.

My Phooka is of course the human eating vampire type. Black haired, black eyed, with a Mongolian appearance, about 6'1" in height, thin but very strong, and can change into any bird or animal he chooses...usually he chooses something big, black and scary. He is wild and savage, cruel and brutal, more a monster than a man. He'll not only drink the blood of, but also eat any human fool enough to get caught by him. You could say he is more like the traditional "pre-Dracula" type vampire.

This guy of course is my fearsome villain Blackbird from my Twighlight Manor stories.

I love phookas! they are my fave mythical creature/faerie/folklore creature/thing/being... I've got two of them (brothers) in my NaNo this year... I've used them before in other stories, they are so much fun to write about because not only can they be vampire-like but they can be were-wolf-like too, plus I'm not limited to wolves or full-moons, because they can change into any animal at any time they feel like.

Read Updates About My Latest Book: The Ruby Throated Humming Bird 

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The Phooka Blackbird: A Twighlight Manor Character Profile 

BlackBird well be making a staring role in the upcoming book: The Ruby Throated Humming Bird

1.) What is your character's name?

Born Esmerald Mudsburg, October 24, 1570, he was given the nickname Blackbird, after the form he chose to take on as his trademark shape.

2.) What does he/she look like?

He is Morphic Phooka, whose natural appearance if humanoid. He has exotic and highly attractive Mongolian features. His very long shaggy black hair that appears to have never seen a brush. He has unearthly, black, deeply slanted, almond shaped eyes lacking both whites and pupils, and which glow like blazen white coals when he is angered. His hands are long and thin, but muscular and abnormally strong. He is able to crush human bones with his bare hands. On his finger tips instead of fingernails he has sharp gleaming black eagle talons for ripping human flesh. Blackbird is both trickster and shapeshifter. He is neither human, nor does he have the emotions or mentality of a human. He is irrational and ruthless, known for acting fist and thinking later. His violent temper has lead to countless human deaths, many of whom he ate after killing. He often acts more animal than human and well growl, bare his fangs, and lash his claws when he feels threatened. Due to the fearsome nature of his natural appearance, Blackbird often takes the form of a human to befriend unsuspecting victims. His most often used form of choice however is the Veruex (The Black African Eagle) in a larger than natural size. Other favored forms include Panthers/Black Jaguars, and most black birds. In his natural "unmorphed" form he most resembles the Human called Alice Copper.

Blackbird looks just like this:



3.) Where does he/she live?

Blackbird lived most of his life in remote regions of China, Papua New Guinea, and the Amazon Rainforest. Later in life he was captured by humans and commited to The White Rock Asylum for the Criminally Insane. In this year's NaNoNovel he lives in the Amazon.

4.) How old is he/she?

this year: 437 years old, nearling the end of his races average 500 year life span

5.) What time period does he/she live in?

From 1570 - current.

6.) Does he/she have any relatives?

Living relatives: his father, 3 younger brothers, one younger sister

Dead relatives: mother, 37 wives (most of them human)

Other: has a twin brother rumored to be dead

7.) What is his/her favorite color?

black

8.) What is his/her favorite food?

human flesh

9.) What types of clothes does he/she wear?

Blackbird spent most of his life in China (1600's), and always dresses in black, wearing loose flowing silks in Asian cut. He sometimes wears elaborate masks and huge feathered headdresses of Mesoamerican style.

10.) Describe his/her pajamas:

wears a loose black silk kimono type robe to bed, but does not sleep on a bed, in humanoid and jaguar form he sleeps on the floor/ground, or in bird form in a tree

11.) What is his/her favorite book?

he is illiterate

12.) What is his/her favorite song/music genre?

likes wild tribal drum beats

13.) How often does your character shower/brush his/her teeth?

rarely

14.) When was the last time he/she went out on a date?

after 37 dead wives, women tend to stear clear of this dark creature

15.) Does he/she have allergies/asthma/some strange disease or susceptibility to disease?

no

16.) Does he/she play an instrument?

no

17.) Does he/she collect items?

the skulls of his victims; antique Chinese weapons; raises poison arrow frogs to make halucinagetic drugs with

18.) Does he/she have any friends?

only two, most people a terrified of him

19.) If you could place your person in a high school, which groups would he/she "click" with?

goths or emos would prob'ly find him cool

20.) What hair styles does your character have?

very long, shaggy, unkept, matted, unbrushed, very wild and savage looking

21.) If your character got lost in a forest, what would he/she do?

turn into a bird and fly over the tops of the trees to find the direction out

22.) If your character got flicked off by someone, what would he/she do?

rip out their throat and eat their heart

23.) If your character was asked out on a date by a random person, what would he/she do?

Women are his weakness, he has had many wives, several of them human, he tends to "woo" women in much the same hypnotic way that other dark races of faerie do. Women are adviced to keep their distance from him, as he tends to mate not date and lays claim to any woman willing to go near him, and well than slaughter and eat any male that gets near her

24.) Does your character have any phobias?

none for most of his life... after being released from the asylum he had many, including doctors and guards (they used toture to keep him sedated)

25.) Does your character have a job/profession?

Blackbird is the prime "deity/god" of the religous cult in several of my books; was a hitman for a ganster for a couple of years in more recent years.

26.) Is your character a morning person, or a late-night person?

Blackbird is very secretive and prefers his privacy, keeping out of the public eye, usually keeping to the shadows and is rarely seen by his victims. He uses stealth and the element of surprise to his advantage. People fear the darkness for fear than Blackbird will be lying in wait for them.

27.) If your character met you, what would he/she say/do?

??? no idea ???

28.) When is your character's birthday?

October 24, 1570

29.) What habits does your character have?

A dangerous blood thirsty Morphic Phooka from the Realm of Fae, Blackbird spends much of his days in the form of a giant Black African Eagle, though he can take the form of anything or anyone he chooses, making him all the more dangerous as he could be disguised as your best friend and you would not know it until it was too late.

Like most races of Faerie, the Phookan race is far from friendly towards humans. The mildest Phookas resort to pranks and trickery, while the darkest are outright brutal and deadly. Blackbird is feared not only by humans, but by other Phookas as well.

The eldest son of the Phookan warrior: Aardsvorkus Mudsburg, a.k.a. The Mudbug. Blackbird was raised and trained to be a fighter in gladiator style "faerie rings", where he quickly became the undefeated champion. His trademark was to change from humanoid to bird and back to humanoid form confusing his opponent, than killing them with a quick blow that turned their head front to back, and finally ensured their death by eating their heart and brain.

After The Red-Dragon and The Lansquin, Blackbird is considered the most feared and most dangerous man in the known universe (in my books).

30.) How would a character in your book who does not like this character describe him/her?

most say he is a monster; many would like to see him exicuted

My Phooka Art 

Art by Wendy C. Allen

The following pictures are conceptual art for my upcoming book, The Ruby Hummingbird. Each of the pictures below has at least one Phooka in it. My main character, Blackbird, is in all three of these pictures.

Here is the Phooka, Blackbird in his natural state humanoid form:



Here is the Phooka, Firehawk, Blackbird's younger brother, in his natural state humanoid form. In this picture he is wearing his warrior uniform. There are two differant Phookas in this picture. Can you find his older brother Blackbird in this pictue? Blackbird is in his raven form in this pictue and seen perched on FireHawks shoulder.



In this picture we see the human girl who is the hero of the story. She is seen pictured with the Phooka, Blackbird in his black panther or were-jaguar form.

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The content of this lens was created by Wendy C. Allen compiled from posts on EK's Star Log, the official blog of author and artist Wendy C. Allen, a.k.a. EelKat. Reprinted here on Squidoo with permision.

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The Pooka

The Pooka, or phooka is a type of Irish hobgoblin who can appear in many different shapes and forms. Usually he has red eyes and some sort of fire-breathing properties. He usually appears in the shape of a dark coloured large animal, resembling a horse or a pony, or even a very large goat. Sometimes he appears as a giant bull with eyes and nostrils gleaming fire. He has even been described as a very large eagle-like creature such as the great winged Roc of the legends of Sinbad in the Arabian nights.

The time of year particularly associated with the pooka is Samhain or Halloween the last day of October. This is the time when the Celts believed the barriers between our material world and the otherworld to be at their weakest.

The Pooka usually crept up silently behind his victim and if he succeeded in getting his head between the victim's legs they were whisked up on his back, then he could take his victim anywhere - to the highest peak or the lowest depth or to any place on the face of the earth...

Le Phooka

core un descendant de Pan %u2026On le retrouve faucon sur la chaîne des Mourne Montains, nain frappeur dans les grottes de Marble Arch, cheval marin sur la côte tumultueuse du Sligo, fantôme enchaîné dans le Connemara, triton affamé sous les eaux du Lough Key

Taille : de 60 cm. à 40 m.

Aspect : multiple. Il aurait à l'origine l'aspect d'un gnome velu à tête de cheval, la crinière tressée par les génies des mousses. Sa main droite serait grande et large, pour saisir et étrangler, sa gauche plus acérée, pour éventrer.

Vêtements : Tunique de peaux et fourrures. Il porte un chapelet de lourdes chaînes qu'il agite et fait tournoyer afin d'effrayer ou pour briser les crânes.

Habitat : Un peu partout en Irlande. Affectionne les endroits déserts. Lorsqu'il campe et se repose quelques jours, il creuse un trou où il abandonne toujours sa "mue".

Nourriture : Dévore le bétail et les enfants, mais épargne le peuple nain et elfique.

Moeurs et activités : Il est fou, cruel et joyeux. D'une gaieté qui le pousse à commettre des farces fâcheuses : arracher la tête pour jouer à la balle, enlever un marmot et s'amuser des pleurs et des lamentations grotesques de ses parents, s'élancer au milieu d'un cortège et assommer les gens de ses ruades.

Pooka

POO·ka -- also puka, pwca, phooka, buca, bwca, bookha ('pu·ka). [Ir. phooka, puca]

An Irish Goblin, the Phooka probably had his roots in Scandinavia before being brought to Wales and Ireland. His Nordic name is Kornbock (which prefers a goat body) and Welsh call him Bookha or Bwca (which typically has a pig or horse body).

In essence, the pooka is a mischievous spirit from Celtic lore which usually takes the form of a larger than life animal. While they can be quite pleasant and helpful, like all fairies they are prone to telling lies and cannot be trusted. The pooka is a representation of the common trickster figure in mythology and folklore. He is quite fond of jests and pranks of all sorts.

In Ireland the Phooka typically chooses a horse body, however he is a shape shifter and sometimes becomes a goat, a bull, a dog, or an eagle (among other beasts). His head is that of a human male. They are pranksters, like most goblins, and appear to weary travelers as docile ponies. Once their victim has climbed aboard, the phooka takes the hapless rider on a wild ride across the wettest and most loamy country before depositing him in ditch or tossing him headlong into the mire. His eagle form has also lended itself to a similar trick.

The Irish believe that should the sun shine though it be raining, the Phooka will be abroad that night. In Ireland, the Phooka never enters human houses, however in Wales the Booka have taken their cue from Santa Claus and sneak in through the chimney.

In some areas of the country, the pooka is rather more mysterious than dangerous, provided it is treated with proper respect. The pooka may even be helpful on occasion, issuing prophecies and warnings where appropriate. For example, the folklorist Douglas Hyde referred to a 'plump, sleek, terrible steed' which emerged from a hill in Leinster and which spoke in a human voice to the people there on the first day of November. It was accustomed to give "intelligent and proper answers to those who consulted it concerning all that would befall them until November the next year. And the people used to leave gifts and presents at the hill..."

The name Pooka belongs to a variety of seemingly very different beings. Often in Ireland it is the generic name for any haunting spirit or ghost. More widespread though is the Phooka as an animal spirit. It has a large number of forms, but the animal is always large, black and of high intelligence (often various embellishents such as red eyes are added). When a horse or pony, or indeed any animal, the Phooka likes to encourage humans to ride upon the seemingly friendly animal, at which point it bolts off in a usually successful effort to scare them witless, finally dumping them on the ground or in a stream. In parts of Ireland the name "pooka" is given to a person taken to telling tall stories ie, "taking you for a ride".

The Pooka

Variants: phouka, puca
No fairy is more feared in Ireland than the pooka. This may be because it is always out and about after nightfall, creating harm and mischief, and because it can assume a variety of terrifying forms.

The guise in which it most often appears, however, is that of a sleek, dark horse with sulphurous yellow eyes and a long wild mane. In this form, it roams large areas of countryside at night, tearing down fences and gates, scattering livestock in terror, trampling crops and generally doing damage around remote farms.

The mere sight of it may prevent hens laying their eggs or cows giving milk, and it is the curse of all late night travellers as it is known to swoop them up on to its back and then throw them into muddy ditches or bogholes. The pooka has the power of human speech, and it has been known to stop in front of certain houses and call out the names of those it wants to take upon its midnight dashes. If that person refuses, the pooka will vandalise their property because it is a very vindictive fairy.

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