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oapen-20.500.12657-531932023-12-13T13:23:51Z The Boggart Sourcebook Young, Simon folklore, myth, mythical beings, tradiitional stories, legend, Boggart bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFH Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge::JFHF Folklore, myths & legends bic Book Industry Communication::F Fiction & related items::FQ Myth & legend told as fiction bic Book Industry Communication::V Health & personal development::VX Mind, Body, Spirit::VXQ Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal::VXQM Monsters & legendary beings bic Book Industry Communication::3 Time periods qualifiers::3J Modern period, c 1500 onwards::3JH c 1800 to c 1900 bic Book Industry Communication::3 Time periods qualifiers::3J Modern period, c 1500 onwards::3JJ 20th century 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. 2022-03-03T09:19:09Z 2022-03-03T09:19:09Z 2022 book 9781905816934 9781905816941 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53193 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781905816958.pdf https://www.exeterpress.co.uk/en/Book/2114/The-Boggart-Sourcebook.html University of Exeter Press 10.47788/QXUA4856 10.47788/QXUA4856 8997c8ff-5e93-42a0-99b3-3ed1ff2e7d62 9781905816934 9781905816941 306 Exeter open access
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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.
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