Puck (mythology)

See also: Puck

Puck is a fairy-like character medieval Folklore English. Puck is called pooka or púca in Ireland, and pwcca with the Wales.

In the Irish Mythology medieval, it is called pooka and is a of the same creature origin than the Greek god Pan. This divinity had the property to be métamorphe but generally not taking human form. According to the times and the authors, this divinity could be either benevolent or malfaisante.

Left Lutin or Farfadet malignant and mischievous which one called also Robin Goodfellow ( Robin Bonenfant ) or Hobgoblin (“croquemitaine”). He plays of the turns to the travellers, changes, frightens the young girls and hustles the old women.

Puck appears in volume 34 of the Charmed series.

Theater

Shakespeare makes of it a character of the Songe one night of summer . Puck is there with the service of Obéron, king of the fairies. Obéron sends it to seek the flower of “love in idleness” ( coil-in-idleness ) and Puck must deposit juice of it on the eyes of an young man “in costume of Athenian”. By error it manages this charm with Lysandre deadened. It afflicts Nick Bottom with a head of ass, so that Titania, queen of the fairies, will fall in love with an animal and will forget its feelings for the small Indian. Puck has fun confusion which its blunders involve. Later it receives from Obéron the order to create a thick fog and to mislay the rival lovers there by imitating their voice, then to apply an antidote to the eyelids of Lysandre. At the end of the part he explains his acts in a speech which is used to standardize the part itself, for the case where it would have offended the spectators. " Shades which we are, if we displeased, appear you only that you made only one bad somme." It worms has as a function essential to attach the spectators to the part by comparing them to the Athenian lovers: in the part they are them-even waked up like dream of the madnesses of the world of the fairies.

In the Years 1980, the name of Puck was given to the moon of Uranus in homage to Shakespeare.

This creature would have inspired Pucca, a cartoon.

Puck appears regularly in the cartoon Gargoyles .

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