Description
Book SynopsisComprising 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
