The Boggart Sourcebook
Texts and Memories for the Study of the British Supernatural
Author(s)
Young, Simon
Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
folklore, myth, mythical beings, tradiitional stories, legend, BoggartISBN
9781905816934, 9781905816941Publisher
University of Exeter PressPublication date and place
Exeter, 2022Classification
Folklore, myths & legends
Myth & legend told as fiction
Monsters & legendary beings
c 1800 to c 1900
20th century