Pooka (disambiguation)

Púca and Puca may refer to:

• Púca (also Pooka, Phooka, Phouka, Púka, Pwca in Welsh, pouque in Dgèrnésiais, also Glashtyn, Gruagach), a creature of Celtic folklore, notably in Ireland and Wales

• Púca, used in Ireland for the hallucinogenic Liberty Cap mushroom (Psilocybe semilanceata). This use is believed to predate the popularisation of the mushroom in the 1970s, and may possibly be of considerable antiquity.

• Puca, the aliens in the Reefs Of Earth

• A púca, the protagonist of a series of newspaper cartoons by Martyn Turner

Pooka may refer to:

• Pooka, an only slightly mischievous version of the creature from the stage play and movie Harvey, in which the title character, an invisible six-foot-eight-and-a-half-inch rabbit, is described by the movie's main character Elwood P. Dowd as a pooka. The character Mr. Wilson Reads the definition of pooka from the encyclopedia: "P-O-O-K-A. Pooka. From old Celtic mythology, a fairy spirit in animal form, always very large. The pooka appears here and there, now and then, to this one and that one. A benign but mischievous creature. Very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and how are you, Mr. Wilson?" [Inverts and shakes the encyclopedia] 'How are you, Mr. Wilson?' Who in the encyclopedia wants to know?"

• Pooka, a character in the classic video game Dig Dug

• Pooka, a ghost horse in Crewel Lye, a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony

• Pooka, a ghost horse that Darby O'Gill chases in the Disney movie "Darby O'gill and The Little People."

• Pooka (World of Darkness), a type of character in the fae-based White Wolf role-playing game Changeling: The Dreaming

• Pooka, the name of Tim Rhymeless' familiar in Wild ARMs 2, which is capable of changing form to facilitate the game's summons

• Pooka, a monster in Dark Age of Camelot

• Pooka, a character that helps the girl, Jenny, and the Ghost Tamsin in the book by Peter S. Beagle entitled Tamsin

• Pooka, a shape-shifting character in the online web comic NeverNever by John Robey.

• "The Pooka MacPhellimey, a member of the devil class", a main character in Flann O'Brien's classic novel At Swim-Two-Birds

• Pooka, the name Anastasia gives the mischievous tag-along pup in the animated film Anastasia.

• Pooka (band), the name of a now-defunct British pop duo, Natasha Lea Jones and Sharon Lewis (both of whom are now exploring solo careers). From 1993, they released four albums (Pooka, Spinning, Shift, and Fools Give Birth to Angels) and numerous singles. They have also featured on albums from Orbital.

• "The Pooka", a story that appears in the third entry, "Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts", in the "Bruce Coville's Book of" anthology series

• A Pooka, a wandering spirit that is part man and part donkey that "helps" the main character in the children's book Jamie O'Rourke and the Pooka by Tomie DePaola

• A Pooka named Elwood, that appeared to help the kids find a girl lost in the sutant school's biosphere, in the 1990's comic Generation X

• A Pooka named Shamus appears in Blue Monday by Chynna Clugston, as a spirit guide to Bleu Finnegan, and can be seen by her best friend Clover as wel.

• The word used in the movie Caveman (film) to mean broken.

Phooka may refer to:

• Phooka, a type of shape-shifting ghost noted in the game Ghost Master

• The Phooka, a type of fay in The Spiderwick Chronicles that speaks in rhymes and shape-shifts

Phouka may refer to:

• Phouka, one of the main characters of Emma Bull's best-known book, War for the Oaks