The mysterious slab in Written Stone Lane, #Preston, #Lancashire. A #boggart lived beneath it and attacked a man who foolishly scoffed at its existence. After trying to use it as a gatepost, a farmer was also punished by the spook and rapidly put it back: 'TO LYE FOREVER' #PhantomsFriday #folklore

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash: `Often found in #Cornwall, the #boggart was a trickster version of the brownie, who caused destruction, tossing things about the house at whim; any brownie could become a boggart if mistreated by his family.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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#HarryPotter fans, who knew!

“ #BOGGART, s. - A bugbear or scarecrow, an unreality and thing powerless to do injury, which works in a frightening way on the imagination.”

‘Cheshire Glossary’, p.25 in “A Glossary of Words Used in the #Dialect of #Cheshire”, Egerton Leigh, 1877.

Boggarts, albeit elusive, are known to cause mischief and terror wherever they may reside. #boggart #darkfae https://fairyland.blog/post/754704827903361024/boggarts-troublesome-faeries

The 50th episode is out now! It is all about boggarts - shrieking spectres, ghostly geese, inflatable sheep, ineffective graves and much much more.

Come to Boggartdom, meet the feeorin and found out more synonyms for terror than you ever thought you'd need!

Oh and frustratingly, I do not define the term Boggart at any point.

Listen at https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-50-boggarts/ or wherever you get podcasts.

And with this episode some announcements - firstly thank you so much to the artists who I commissioned boggart artworks from - they are absolutely wonderful, and as a gift to myself I've now updated the wikipedia Boggart page with the images, so that it now shows a range of more accurate boggarts.

I'll probably do separate posts on each of the images and the stories they show, but here they all are as a group for now.

Those amazing artists are: @jantiff_illustration, @lino_folk_by_fiona, @rhiwynter and This Is Sian Ellis

Secondly thanks so much to all the patrons who have supported me and meant I could do a silly little project like this, that's made me ever so happy. I couldn't have done it without you.

The wikipedia page itself still needs some edit to the words - but at least there are some excellent pictures! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggart

Secondly: There is no expert discussion section on this episode - this is because for the first time ever I'm going to have an expert discussion section, where I will interview the world's leading Boggart expert - Dr Simon Young (of Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast).

That interview will be the next episode - released in the next few weeks, so you can really delve into boggarts and finally find out what they are!

I really hope you enjoy this episode, I am absolutely thrilled to have made it to fifty and it is absolutely the support of everyone who has ever listened, or encouraged me, to do it! Here's to fifty more in another 6 years time!

#Folklore #Podcast #Boggart #Storytelling #folkloreart

My new podcast #FolkLands with #JustinChubb begins tomorrow! A dark plunge beneath the surface of forgotten British folklore and myth, mixed with 70s kids tv, magick, witches, curses and ancient river demons. Don’t say I never treat you! Available wherever you pod. Please follow us & share!

#magick #britishfolklore #lore #folklore #ghosts #boggart #ladybirdbooks #vampyr

`According to Arnot's Edinburgh, the elders of the Scottish church in 1594 exerted their utmost influence to abolish an irrational custom among the husbandmen. The farmers were apt to leave a portion of their land untilled and uncropped year after year; and this spot, which was supposed to be dedicated to Satan, was styled "the Good Man's Croft", that is to say, the landlord's acre. Some pagan... #Scottish #Boggart #theGoodGod #celtic

ceremony probably had given rise to so strange a superstition; which it is easy to see was designed as a charm or peace offering in behalf of the fertility of the rest of the land. ' - John Brand, Observations in Popular Antiquities, 1900 #Scottish #Boggart #theGoodGod #celtic

…and it turns out that I’m not even real. I’m a figment of the collective fediverse imagination: a #boggart, not a real #dementor (for those of you who prefer #HarryPotter analogies)