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- Title
Boggart Dialect Literature and a Handlist of Boggart Works.
- Authors
YOUNG, SIMON
- Abstract
In the nineteenth and early twentieth century dialect writers from the north, and particularly from Lancashire, often included boggarts in their works. These boggarts, however, were not treated as terrifying supernatural entities, as tradition demanded. Rather, they were a source of comedy, for dialect boggart tales were usually based on misunderstandings, and dialect "boggarts" had prosaic explanations, e.g. a sheep in a cellar, a cow … The author includes a handlist of thirty four boggart works in dialect.
- Subjects
DIALECTS; SOCIOLECT; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; VOCAL cues; VARIATION in language
- Publication
Tradition Today, 2016, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
2050-0920
- Publication type
Article