The Boggart Sourcebook

Texts and Memories for the Study of the British Supernatural

by Simon Young

Book cover: The Boggart Sourcebook

Extent: 306 pages

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(March 2022)

ISBN: 9781905816934

6.1 x 9.17 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.

  • By (author) Simon Young