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03507aam a2200421 i 4500 001 414CA81A072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 211201t20222022enkab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1905816901 020 $a 9781905816903 035 $a (OCoLC)1289277468 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UAB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d PAU $d IUL $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en 050 4 $a GR141 $b .Y68 2022 050 4 $a GR549 $b .Y68 2022 082 04 $a 398.21 $2 23 100 1 $a Young, Simon $c (Historian), $e author. 245 14 $a The boggart : $b folklore, history, place-names and dialect / $c Simon Young. 264 1 $a Exeter : $b University of Exeter Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xvii, 310 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 490 0 $a Exeter new approaches to legend, folklore and popular belief 520 $a "The little-studied and once much-feared boggart is a supernatural being from the north of England. Against the odds it survives today, both in place-names and in fantasy literature-not least the Harry Potter universe. This book pioneers two methods for collecting boggart folklore: first, the use of hundreds of thousands of words on the boggart from newly digitized ephemera; second, about 1,100 contemporary boggart memories from social media surveys and personal interviews relating to the interwar and postwar years. Combining this new data with an interdisciplinary approach involving dialectology, folklore, Victorian history, supernatural history, oral history, place-name studies and sociology, it is possible to reconstruct boggart beliefs, experiences and tales. The boggart was not, as we have been led to believe, a 'goblin'. Rather, 'boggart' was a much more general term encompassing all solitary supernatural beings, from killer mermaids to headless phantoms, from black dogs to shape-changing ghouls. The author shows how in the same period that such beliefs were dying out, folklorists continually misrepresented the boggart, and explores how the modern fantasy boggart was born of these misrepresentations. As well as offering a fresh reading of associated traditions, The Boggart demonstrates some of the ways in which recent advances in digitization can offer rich rewards." --cover page [4]. 500 $a A free, open access companion volume, The Boggart Sourcebook : Texts and Memories for the Study of the British Supernatural, curated and edited by Simon Young is also available from University of Exeter Press, https://doi.org/10.47788/QXUA4856. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-299) and index. 505 00 $g 8. $t The New Boggart. $g 1. $t Boggart Definitions and Sources ; $g 2. $t Boggart Origins ; $g 3. $t Boggart Distribution -- $g Part II. $t Lived Boggart Folklore: $g 4. $t Boggart Landscapes ; $g 5. $t Boggart Beliefs and Transmission ; $g 6. $t Social Boggarts -- $g Part III. $t The Death and Rebirth of the Boggart: $g 7. $t Boggart Death ; $g 8. $t The New Boggart. 650 0 $a Fairies $x Folklore. 650 0 $a Folklore $z England, Northern. 650 0 $a Supernatural $x Folklore. 650 7 $a Folklore. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00930306 650 7 $a Supernatural. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01138960 651 7 $a Northern England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01692645 655 7 $a Folklore. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423784 655 7 $a Legends. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Folk literature. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117022807.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=414CA81A072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search