Simon Young

Broschiertes Buch

The Boggart

Folklore, History, Place-names and Dialect

Beschreibung

The little-studied and once much-feared boggart is a supernatural being from the north of England. Using long-forgotten sources as well as social media surveys and personal interviews, this ground-breaking book reveals that almost everything we thought we knew about the boggart is wrong.

Autor

Simon Young is a British folklore historian, based in Italy. He has a longstanding interest in the study of the supernatural. In 2017 he edited Magical Folk (2017) with Ceri Houlbrook, and has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles in Folk Life, Folklore, Gramarye, Supernatural Studies, Tradition Today and other journals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Exeter Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781804131664
• ISBN-10: 1804131660
• Artikelnr.: 73409805