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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9568968" data-attributes="member: 58172">In medieval England, the "bugbear" was a "spooky bear" that lurked in the woods. A translation of Italian La Spiritata from 1500s portrays it this way. Hence the term is often used generally for anything that is both spooky and dangerous, such as by Shakespeare 1600s in Troylus and Cressida. The "bug", bugge, bogey, boogie, also relating to "puck", relates to the goblin spookiness as a hostile fey creature of fairy tales. Because the folkbelief was often told to frighten children, it sometimes connotes an imaginary threat, and today is also used to describe an ongoing pet peeve.The D&D 2024 Bugbear seems to tap well into the dangerousness, lurking, outofsight, and fey aspects of the reallife lore.</blockquote>