The Boggart Sourcebook: Texts and Memories for the Study of the British Supernatural

by Simon Young

Overview

Comprising three parts, this book is a companion volume to The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect. Part one, 'Boggart Ephemera', is a selection of about 40,000 words of nineteenth-century boggart writing (particularly material that is difficult to find in libraries). Part two presents a catalogue of 'Boggart Names' (place-names and personal names, totalling over 10,000 words). Finally, part three contains the entire 'Boggart Census' - a compendium of ground-breaking grassroots research. This census includes more than a thousand responses, totalling some 80,000 words, from older respondents in the north-west of England, to the question: 'What is a boggart?' The Boggart Sourcebook will be of interest to folklorists, historians and dialect scholars. It provides the three corpora on which the innovative monograph, The Boggart, is based.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781905816934
Publisher:	University of Exeter Press
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Series:	Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x (d)

About the Author

Simon Young is a British folklore historian, based in Italy. He has a longstanding interest in the study of the supernatural. In 2017 he edited Magical Folk (2017) with Ceri Houlbrook, and has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles in Folk Life, Folklore, Gramarye, Supernatural Studies, Tradition Today and other journals.

Table of Contents

Introduction Abbreviations Corpus One: Boggart Ephemera Corpus Two: Boggart Names I) Boggart Place-names II) Boggart Place-names by Landscape Type III) Boggart Place-names by County IV) Boggart Proper Names V) Bibliography to Corpus Two Corpus Three: Boggart Census Lancashire West Riding Cheshire Derbyshire Lincolnshire Rhodesian, Scottish and Other Boggarts Addenda Appendix: Questions and Prompts