In English folklore, a boggart (or bogart) is a household fairy which causes things to disappear, milk to sour, and dogs to go lame. Always malevolent, the boggart will follow its family wherever they flee. In Northern England, at least, there was the belief that the boggart should never be named, for when the boggart was given a name, it would not be reasoned with or persuaded and become uncontrollable and destructive. Boggles are evil creatures in the Chronicles of Narnia, a series of fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis. Boggart is also the nickname given to Richard Ford the eminent Geographer.