The monster under YOUR bed • The ancient horror that became Harry Potter's greatest fear
Вставка
- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- What really is a boggart? How can you tell if there’s one in your home? And what do stories of these obscure creatures tell us about our fears and anxieties?
Hi everybody, I’m Nick and this is Beasts of the Olde World, a channel that explores ancient folklore, mythology, and mythical creatures from across the globe. If you’re fascinated by the mysterious and the unseen, then make sure to subscribe and ring the bell.
You may know boggarts from the Harry Potter series, but what is this magical creature from Lancashire’s folklore (in Northern England) really like? How do these frightening entities embody our greatest fears and cultural anxieties? And is it true that nobody knows what a boggart really looks like?
Are boggarts shapeshifters? Are they household sprites, mischievous goblins, and do they live in liminal spaces such as the cupboard under the stairs? Are they evil spirits or demons? Or simply apparitions? Ghosts and spectres?
How are they different from hobs and hobgoblins, from bugbears and brownies? And do they share anything in common with black dogs like the Padfoot, with fairies, or with forest tricksters like Will o’ the wisps?
Our journey takes us to places steeped in Boggart legends: Boggart Bridge in Burnley, the Boggart Stones on Saddleworth Moor, and to Boggart Hole Clough in Blackley, Manchester. We will learn about the supernatural events that tormented George Cheetham and his family in the Flit Legend, and we'll examine why boggart sightings in the 1800s most commonly occurred at night, why travelers blamed field boggarts for the strange noises they heard in the dark, and how boggarts made travel at night so dangerous. We'll also look at how the myth of these strange creatures have come to represent our fear of the dark in general.
We'll talk about the work of Ellen Walkingshaw from the University of Hertfordshire, who explains why boggarts had an unsettling link to child mortality, and we'll look at the incredible work of Dr Simon Young, author of The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place Names and Dialect, and examine his detailed analysis of the changing meaning of the word boggart, and draw some startling conclusions.
Finally we will discuss the accuracy of JK Rowling's depiction of these mysterious and ominous beings, and whether they bear any resemblance to the boggart spoken about by the Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-lore of Lancashire, or if they are actually closer to more modern, American folk-horror touchstones like Stephen King’s Pennywise.
I hope you enjoy this deep dive into England's mythic past, examining these Beasts of the Olde World. I hope you'll return for future creature features and folk horror stories.
Chapters 🔖
00:30 PART ONE - The Changing Face of the Boggart
02:25 STORY SECTION - The Flit Legend
05:53 PART TWO - The Boggart in the Mirror
10:03 PART THREE - Clues from the past
14:58 CONCLUSIONS - What is a boggartt and how accurate is the Harry Potter boggart?
Links 🔗
Supernatural Pranksters in Lancashire - Ellen Walkingshaw (University of Hertfordshire)
www.epoch-maga...
The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place Names and Dialect by Dr Simon Young
books.google.c...
#mythicalcreatures #harrypotter #horrorstories
Loving your channel ❤ got a new subby 😊
Magnificent presentation. Keep up the fine work!
Thank you 🙏
I had a boggart once, absolute bastard to get rid of but managed it eventually
We have similar stories here in the west Highlands. Always found it interesting that 'the gentry', 'those people' etc...don't like iron. A ruined echo of the memories of pre Celtic people?...perhaps some of them became 'house slaves'?....
Very good video. I live near Boggart Hole Clough and take regular walks in there.
Yes I used to live nearby too, been through the woods there a number of times as they were on my way back from work. Lovely ramble, and big enough that you can forget you're in a city! Never saw any boggarts though. At least I don't think so...
@@BeastsoftheOldeWorld The only thing that ever happened to me was when I was walking to where the farm house used to be. I'd come down the steps from Glen Avenue and was walking along the path, past the Boggart Stone, and the place suddenly became very still and spooky. The birds stopped singing, the sun went behind a cloud, everything became very dark and ominous... so I walked a bit faster to get out of there and back up to the recreation ground.
@@peteuplink I can imagine - the place definitely does have a feel to it! Out of curiosity, where did the farmhouse used to be? If I remember rightly there's a fair expanse of open moorland near the back, (I'm guessing on there somewhere) but I never really explored that and never found any ruins or anything. I would just hop off the 163 and wander through the woods, occasionally walking up to the lake. There used to be a gap in the fence there and the woodland beyond that felt otherworldly.
@BeastsoftheOldeWorld the farmhouse used to be called Kays Farm (do a Google search for Kays Farm Blackley) and was right at the bottom of the valley. When I was a kid it had been turned into a refreshment shop, and it was pulled down some time between 1980 and 1985.
Silly humans thinking that the house fay wouldn't follow them when they moved I know for a fact that the brownies that bonded to me followed my family from California to Oklahoma
Why do boggarts sound so much like poltergeists?
They totally could be! If we take Young's boggart definition as 'any ambivalent or evil solitary supernatural spirit' then that almost certainly includes poltergeists
Or somebody taxonomies creatures .... elves ... trolls and other creatures were generalizations of every super natural entity. This even carries over to Asian lore. There is a very thin line between demon ghost Forest spirit elemental spirit celestial being. Some cases evolving from one to the nether like a Pokémon. As illustrated in the journey west.
Can taily pool of Appalachian lore be a carry over off the puca. The Appalachian mountains were settled predominantly Populated by people of German and Irish dissent
Yeah possibly - haven't done any in-depth research into the Tailypo, but it does seem that there's a fair amount of cross over with this and creatures like the Púca.
At a quick glance the Tailypo does seem to be more vengeful and malevolent than the Púca, which seem to be a bit more capricious and mischievous. But of course, folk stories travel with folk, and change as folk change so why not?