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 is Cambridge-educated with a doctorate from the University of Florence. He has taught at universities in Tuscany for some fifteen years. In 2023 he was runner up for the Katharine Briggs Prize and for the Wayland Hand Prize, and won the Brian McConnell Book Award in that year. In 2023 he also won a Curran Fellowship.

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.