Darren Hayman & The Short Parliament - Bugbears lyrics

Who would believe what strange bugbears 
Mankind creates itself of fears 
That spring like fern that insect weed 
Equivocally, without seed?
 And have no possible foundation,
 But merely in the imagination? 
And yet can do more dreadful feats
 Than hags, with all their imps and teats.

 Make more bewitch and haunt themselves,
 Than all their nurseries of elves.
 For fear does things so like a witch Tis hard to unriddle which is which