In Scottish, bu-kow was a word for hobgoblins or any particularly terrifying creature.

在苏格兰语中，“bu-kow”描述的是妖怪或任何特别可怕的生物。

Here we see Hog Squill, a hobgoblin who has decided to help the children.

这里我们看到的是霍格斯奎尔，一个决帮助孩子们的妖精。

'What will you give me, ' said the hobgoblin, 'to do it for you'?

“愿意给我什么， ” 大地精说，“让我为做这件事” ？

At last some of the men determined to find out what this strange light was-whether it was a hobgoblin dancing in the air, or something dropped from the sky.

最后，其中几个人决探个究竟，到底这个灯光是什么怪物——到底是妖怪在空中乱舞呢，还是从天上掉下来的什么东西。

When she hung over the foot of their bed and outlined the work she expected them to do when they recovered, they looked at her as if she were a hobgoblin.

每当她坐在她们床脚边，设想她们病好以后她叫她们做的工作时，她们总是注视着她，仿佛她是个妖魔似的。

This conversation they are apt to run into with the same temper that boys discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits and hobgoblins, which they greedily listen to, and dare not go to bed for fear.

这段对话他们往往会以一种与男孩相似的心态陷入其中，男孩们喜欢听关于鬼怪的恐怖故事，贪婪地倾听，又因为害怕而不敢上床睡觉。