_Origin of word Bug_.--I should feel obliged by your informing
me whether the word _Bug_ is not of _Celtic_ origin, signifying
a "_Ghost_ or _Goblin_?" Vide Shakespeare's _Taming of the Shrew_,
Act I. Scene II.:--
"Tush, tush, fright boys with _bugs_."
And whether, in _Mathews'_ Bible, A.D. 1537, the 5th verse of
the 91st Psalm is not thus rendered:--
"Thou shalt not need to be afraid of any _bugs_ by night"?
literally, in the Hebrew, "_Terror_ of the night."