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a bog-dwelling water demon invented to keep children too terrified to drown
means A malevolent water spirit of English folklore, said to lurk in ponds, marshes, and bogs and to drag unwary children beneath the surface with its long grasping arms.
from A creature of northern English folklore, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire, where parents invoked it as a nursery bogey to keep children away from dangerous water. The name's exact roots are uncertain, but it's often linked to Grendel, the marsh-haunting monster of Beowulf — both possibly tracing back to an Old English sense of 'grinding' or 'destroying.' It belongs to a watery family of British water-demons that includes Jenny Greenteeth and Peg Powler, the unseen hands beneath still water.
- job description
- drags wandering children into ponds and marshes
- origin
- English folklore from Yorkshire and Lancashire bogs
- the long fingers
- green grasping hands are its trademark feature
- modern fame
- reappears as Harry Potter's lake-lurking menace
- sibling threat
- shares duty with Jenny Greenteeth and Peg Powler
grindylow of tarnbrook — water monster in lancashire folklore said to drown children in tarnbrook fell
grindylow harry potter — creature in j.k. rowling's harry potter and the goblet of fire (2000), set in hogwarts lake