mawn

noun3

1. •
   Peat.

   • […] the wastes made impassable by crevasses; the mawn-pits that could swallow a man and his mount before either was aware of them. — 1932
2. •
   (dialect, Scotland) A maund; a basket or hamper.
3. •
   A ghost.

   • None of the natives who had come in the boat would touch the body, or even go near it, saying, the mawn would come; that is literally, ‘the spirit of the deceased would seize them’. — 2006