Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play, and is famously known for getting his head transformed into that of an ass by the elusive Puck within the play.

Due to an enchantment cast by Oberon's servant Puck, Titania magically falls in love with a rude mechanical ( a lower class labourer ), Nick Bottom the Weaver, who has been given the head of an ass by Puck, who feels it is better suited to his character ( which bears a resemblance to the story of Lycaon ).

Puck and "" Bottom "" are the only two characters who interact and progress the three central stories in the whole play, Puck is the one who is first introduced in the fairies story and creates the drama of the lover's story by messing up who loves whom, as well as placing the ass on Bottom's head in his story.

Titania awakens and finds herself madly in love with Bottom, a weaver that has been given a donkey's head by Puck.

After Puck straightens out what he has done, and Demetrius discovers that he is really in love with Helena after all, Oberon looks upon Titania and her lover, Bottom, and feels sorry for what he has done.

The biggest ham among them, Bottom, becomes the unlikely object of interest for love-potion-charmed fairy queen Titania after he is cursed with the head and ears of an ass by the servant-spirit Puck.

Bottom and Puck are the only two characters who interact and progress the three central stories in the whole play, Puck is the one who is first introduced in the fairies story and creates the drama of the lover's story by messing up who loves who, as well as placing the ass on Bottom's head in his story.

Hans Wassmann as Bottom, by Emil Orlik, 1909While they are in the woods rehearsing, the fairy Puck, a mischievous sprite and minion of Oberon, king of the fairies, happens upon their rehearsal.

An 1881 Puck ( magazine ) | Puck cartoon shows Garfield finding a baby at his front door with a tag marked " Civil Service Reform, compliments of Rutherford B. Hayes | R. B.

If you had the knack, Puck might do minor housework for you, quick fine needlework or butter-churning, which could be undone in a moment by his knavish tricks if you fell out of favour with him.

An early 17th century broadside ballad, " The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow "— which is so deft and literate it has been taken for the work of Ben Jonson — describes Puck / Robin Goodfellow as the emissary of Oberon, the Faery King, inspiring night-terrors in old women but also carding their wool while they sleep, leading travellers astray, taking the shape of animals, blowing out the candles to kiss the girls in the darkness, twitching off their bedclothes, or making them fall out of bed on the cold floor, tattling secrets, and changing babes in cradles with elflings.

In Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill ( 1906 ), Puck, the last of the People of the Hills and " the oldest thing in England ", charms the children Dan and Una with a collection of tales and visitors out of England's past.

“ Púkinn ” with the definite article suffix "- inn ", " The Puck ", means the Devil.

* A folklore page, with a 1639 Puritan image of a demonized Puck

Puck is Oberon's servant sent by Oberon, who is angry with Titania the fairy queen because he could not have the indian boy / slave, so Puck is sent to fetch the flower that has been hit by cupid's arrows.

) Later, Puck is ordered by Oberon to fix the mistake he ( Puck ) made, by producing a dark fog, leading the lovers astray within it by imitating their voices, and then applying the flower to Lysander's eyes, which will cause him to fall back in love with Hermia.

The moon was later named after the Puck who appears in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a little sprite who travels around the globe at night with the fairies.

Observations with Hubble Space Telescope and large terrestrial telescopes found water ice absorption features in the spectrum of Puck.

The absence of craters with bright rays implies that Puck is not differentiated, meaning that ice and non-ice components have not separated from each other forming a core and mantle.

Loki, along with Puck, was holding the child hostage.

Zamora's personal struggle with AIDS, and his conflict with housemate David " Puck " Rainey is credited with helping to make The Real World a hit show, for which Time ranked it # 7 on their list of 32 Epic Moments in Reality-TV History.

Nonetheless, Zamora later took offense at jokes about homosexuals that Rachel engaged in with David " Puck " Rainey.

He also corresponded with Charles Darwin, who named part of the human ear the ' Woolnerian Tip ' after a feature in Woolner's sculpture Puck.

Oberon sends Puck to put some of the juice in Demetrius's eyes to make him fall in love with Helena, after he witnesses him rejecting her.

The RavenAn 1890 Puck cartoon depicts President of the United States | President Benjamin Harrison at his desk wearing his William Henry Harrison | grandfather's hat which is too big for his head, suggesting that he is not fit for the presidency.

* Mallory McMallard ( voiced by Jennifer Hale )-Mallory is a fiery red head who is well-learned in Puckworld's version of the martial arts, although most of the time she is content with just using a Puck Blaster.

" After Oberon instructs Puck to return Bottom's head to his human state, which Puck reluctantly does, the fairies leave him sleeping in the woods, nearby the four Athenian lovers, Demetrius, Helena, Hermia, and Lysander.

Meanwhile, the restaurant that inspired both Puck and Tower became a distinguished establishment, popularizing its so called " mantra " in its book by Paul Bertolli and owner Alice Waters, Chez Panisse Cooking, in 1988.

Successively, the word elf, as well as literary term fairy, evolved to a general denotation of various nature spirits like Puck, hobgoblins, Robin Goodfellow, the English and Scots brownie, the Northumbrian English hob and so forth.

Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, whose nature has been so clearly fixed in the English-speaking imagination that, as Katherine Briggs has remarked, " it no longer seems natural to talk as Robert Burton does in the Anatomie of Melancholy of a puck instead of ' Puck '".

Demona is also granted a " gift " by the magical being Puck: after she requests that he make her able to walk in daylight without turning to stone, he devises and casts a spell that transforms Demona into a human at sunrise, and remains so during the day (" The Mirror ") until sunset, when she transforms back into her " gargate " form.

In Act II and III, Oberon ’ s and Puck ’ s intervention with the magic love potion of the flower, they can control the fates of various characters, but also speed up the process of falling in and out of love, so that the actual romances of the lovers and their love itself appears to become very comical.

For example, William Blake painted Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing, depicting a scene from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, around 1785, and Daniel Maclise painted Faun and the Fairies around 1834.

He also had three recent Vertigo series that have wrapped up: Faker a six part mini-series with art by Jock ; a second graphic novel, God Save the Queen, with John Bolton, featuring Queen Titania, Oberon, Puck, Nuala and Cluracan from the Sandman and Books of Magic comics ; and Crossing Midnight with Jim Fern.

In Magic Street by Orson Scott Card, the character of Puck suggests that Queen Mab and Titania, of A Midsummer Night's Dream, are in fact, the same individual, but Shakespeare did not realize it.

From left to right: Puck ( moon ) | Puck, Miranda ( moon ) | Miranda, Ariel ( moon ) | Ariel, Umbriel ( moon ) | Umbriel, Titania ( moon ) | Titania, and Oberon ( moon ) | Oberon

** A Midsummer Night's Dream: Titania, Oberon, Puck

* George Romney ( 1734 – 1802 ) Titania, Puck and the Changeling, from Shakespeare's ' A Midsummer Night's Dream ' 1793

The Welsh hovea pwca ( a " goblin's trick ", or hoax ) could also be the source: One further speculation is that Hocus Pocus is derived from the Welsh term Hovea Pwca, a hoax perpetrated by a hob-goblin or will o ' the wisp called a Pwca, Pooka, or having the personal name Puck.

The player also has in possession a small android based on Puck which will comment and give descriptions of the surrounding objects or events ( therefore used as an interface element for examining objects ).

This superstition is mentioned in the first episode of Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling, " The Sword of Weland ", which narrates the rise and fall of the god.