The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect

by Simon Young

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905816901
• ISBN13: 9781905816903
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"