Young The Boggart Sourcebook

Texts and Memories for the Study of the British Supernatural
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-905816-94-1
Verlag: University of Exeter Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 306 Seiten

Reihe: Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Young, Simon, Dr.

Young, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Young, Simon, Dr.
Simon Young, ‘the foremost chronicler of Britain’s fairies’, teaches at the University of California (Accent), Florence. He has published The Boggart: Folklore, Place-Names, History and Dialect (2023) with UEP and The Nail in the Skull and other Victorian Urban Legends with Mississippi, which was awarded the 2023 Brian McConnell Book Award.

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.