![]() ![]() ![]() In any case, I fell in love with the boggart, and I fell hard and fast. It was, in fact, she went on to explain, the diabolical form of the brownie (which had no nose ‘only two little nostrils’). The British supernatural, in any case, soon rose to the top of the heap, and one of my first ‘encounters’ with British ‘lower mythology’ was the boggart, a north of England entity.īut what was the boggart? Katharine Briggs, my fairyist heroine, assured me in one of her fairy dictionaries ( Abbey Lubbers) that this was a goblinoid being with ‘a long, sharp nose’. Looking back I was unconsciously sniffing out new areas of study. ![]() In the early 2010s, disillusioned with my habitual studies and recovering from a period of awful health, I began to read around a number of different subjects and write a lot on here. The story of how I came to love the boggart (and neglect other parts of my life) started with the present blog about a decade ago. There are lots of maps and images and, reader, if it dropped on your head from a three-storey building it would brain you. It is three hundred pages long and has just shy of a thousand items in the bibliography. This morning, my new book comes out – The Boggart: Folklore, History, Placenames and Dialect. ![]()
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