The Boggart Sourcebook

Texts and Memories for the Study of the British Supernatural

By (author) Simon Young

Book cover: The Boggart Sourcebook

Hardback (Published)

(March 2022)

ISBN: 9781905816934

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $70.00

In stock

This volume provides the three corpora on which the associated monograph The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect is based. Offering detailed insights into a ground-breaking research method, it will be of particular interest to folklorists, historians and dialect scholars.


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.

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 

  • By (author) Simon Young