28-Jun-2002, 05:39 AM
Have really got fixated wit boggarts.They really were around in large numbers weren't they.Have hunted through my books and found one by Kathleen Eyre ,"Lancashire Ghosts" a mine of information about the critters among other things like supernatural skulls and ghostly apparitions.She also wrote Lancashire Witches and Lancashire Legends 1979.
Evidently boggart or bogies[ as in Humpty] were also called knockers or skrikers and explained why my dad kept telling me to stop skriking or I'll give thee summat t'skrike about.
Wish I could remember a lot of the Lanky dialect.Sometimes sayings slip out from the subconscious even decades later.I seem to think that at schools like Balshaws the dialect was worked out of you by lots of repetition of vowel sounds in the so called "speak proper" way.Like Seven silver swans swimming in the Severn.ETC
Anyway for those of you who watch Monarch of the Glen on Tele the estate is Glenbogle-another boggart home!
Evidently boggart or bogies[ as in Humpty] were also called knockers or skrikers and explained why my dad kept telling me to stop skriking or I'll give thee summat t'skrike about.
Wish I could remember a lot of the Lanky dialect.Sometimes sayings slip out from the subconscious even decades later.I seem to think that at schools like Balshaws the dialect was worked out of you by lots of repetition of vowel sounds in the so called "speak proper" way.Like Seven silver swans swimming in the Severn.ETC
Anyway for those of you who watch Monarch of the Glen on Tele the estate is Glenbogle-another boggart home!