A Bother is a magykal anti-intrusion device that can be used to irritate an unwanted intruder, leaving them so upset that they are frozen in place until they can be discovered by the person who has set the Bother. It sole purpose is stop the object of its attention from doing whatever they want to do. A one-eyed, spiky creature covered in fish scales, its weakness is that it has to first catch a person's eye in order to Bother them.