The Boggart Sourcebook: texts and memories for the study of the british supernatural

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 presen...

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Contributors: Young, Simon (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Exeter University of Exeter Press [2020]
In:Year: 2022
Further subjects:B Monsters & legendary beings
B Folklore, myths & legends
B Myth & legend told as fiction
B c 1800 to c 1900
B 20th Century
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Summary: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
ISBN:1905816952
Access:Open Access