Kipling used to play A Midsummer Night's Dream with his own children. Kipling's Puck was very critical of the common image of fairies at the beginning of the 20th century, which Puck said were made up things. By Oak, Ash and Thorn,' cried Puck, taking off his blue cap, 'I like you too. Sprinkle plenty of salt on the biscuit, Dan, and I'll eat it with you. That'll show you the sort of person I am.
Puck continues to pop up in popular culture.
For example, the six-foot tall invisible rabbit in the classic Jimmy Stewart film Harvey is said to be a Pooka. The tenth moon of Uranus was discovered in 1985. It's named Puck. Jacky Rowan, the heroine of Canadian author Charles de Lint's contemporary fantasy novel, Jack the Giant-Killer is referred to as a puck. And in the sequel, Drink Down the Moon , we meet Jemi Pook, a young female sax player, who is the newest Pook of Puxill, the Faerie realm which overlaps the Ottawa-area Vincent Massey Park.