Knocker (folklore)

Knockers, even crackers, Bwca (Welsh ), Bucca ( ​​Cornish ), Tommyknockers (USA), is the name of goblins in Wales or Cornwall. The name derives from their habit of knocking on the walls of mines. The Púcas that the Knockers are very similar in their underground life, are called into Wales and Cornwall Bwca or Bucca.

Legends

The Knockers are the equivalent of the Irish Leprechauns and Cluricauns, and the English or Scottish brownies. The Knockers Up to two feet tall, live underground and are usually dressed as miners. In the mines they do mischief with the miners, their tools and steal the food or scare them. Your knocking one interprets as a hammer to bring down the tunnel. The Cornish miners, however, keep Buccas good spirits who were once themselves miners, then crashed and now warn their followers against the danger. In the many tin mines of Cornwall, there were always heavy Stolleneinstürze and therefore always left the miners of this warning a few bites of their meals in the tunnel as a thank you back.

As more and more of Welsh and Cornish miners, called Cousin Jacks began to work in the mines of Pennsylvania in the early 18th century, they brought these legends from the old country in the United States. In this new mines would only enter if you assured them that Buccas were already in place. Even in 1956 brought miners a petition not to brick up the tunnel entrance of a mine to be closed, so that the Buccas could freely wander into another mine. Finally, the mining directorate approved the request.

Other popular mythical figures, the Banshee, Black Annis, Cailleach, Gwrach, Korrigan and Tylwyth Teg.