When I was a boy my dog,a feisty terrier,encountered a huge white rabbit on waste ground that she refused to chase.I remember the rabbit standing tall in the grass on its back legs,while my dog ran away yelping.Somebodys pet,escaped from a hutch? Probably,but I've never forgotten the strangeness of the rabbit,which I believe was a boggart.
I had something similar to this late 90smy dog ran away amd it was a brown hare not a rabbit and i had a weord thought it was a lil goblin or something
The Spiderwick Chronicles is where I became familiar with Boggarts and Brownies and different kinds and types such as Thimbletack that was helpful and protecting the book but was a hoarder and a bit of loose ends item thief.
I just stumbled upon your channel in the dark. I must say, this is as interesting and fun a channel as I have ever visited. Outstanding work. You and your boggarts just earned a new sub!
Glad you found it! Plenty more on the way, trying to bring new content at least once every two weeks but this is all done in spare time so hopefully I can keep up with that schedule!
My Grandad Robinson, frightened me to death, when I was sixish, in the early 1960s, by telling me a Boggart, lived in a wardrobe, upstairs in their house. According to tradition a Boggart was a small hairy creature, of which you didn't want to offend, usually round farms! Every night you would leave food and drink for them to keep them appeased! They came with the Vikings, as I think also did the large black dogs from Hell, thought of, as Hell hounds! But then Lancashire was full of malevolent beings, "Jenny Greenteeth" lurked by ponds, waiting to drown children! Tadpoling, was a risky business!
Apparently there are different types. Lol. I remember that term being used in the 80s and 90s for those you've described. Narrator got the pronunciation wrong though
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.
This is really good info - thanks! I just checked this out and the farmhouse was not where I expected it to be at all! Will be looking round there with a totally different perspective next time I'm passing through!
I get books from the National Library Service For The Blind. My first encounter with the word boggart was in a wonderful recorded book of Welsh tales. I loved the story of Yallery Brown. I’m not sure about the spellings because as I said, it was an audiobook so I did not get a chance to read the words. He was helpful to the master of the house he lived in as long as the master did not thank him for doing all the work around the house. The master forgot and thanked him, and then he gave the man trouble for the rest of his life. The master found Yallery in the first place by hearing him chanting a rhyme begging to be let out from under a marble stone.
It's such a great little story. At some point I'll get hold of the original version and see what I can do with it. Would certainly be fun to retell it here, but possibly also a full creature feature too
I have just subscribed to your channel can you please go over more creatures from the olde world like the man on the crosswords. There are so many stories about this fairy creature.
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'?....
It feels like to me that so many modern versions of ancient creatures are different from established folklore because there is so much overlap between the various creatures of yore.
For best information about the boggarts read the last apprentice series ( Joseph Delaney ) which became the motion picture the seventh son ( the books are best )
That is so strange as I wrote a story about this before I even heard about it before Harry Potter was even published. It's in my book the Secret of the Fairies. I didn't call it a boggart but it's often looking like clothing or other discarded items that are tossed under your bed.
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
I would love to hear your tale. A fairy has followed me from home to home. My dad hung a horse shoe our home and yet the little folk never leave me no matter where I go. I just try and care for them as they have cared for me.
Back when I lived in California I was playing with a fidget toy that had a bell on it and the bell flew off into a pile of trash on the floor but I didn't hear it hit the ground or jingle around I didn't think much of it at the time but when I cleaned my room with a friend I didn't find it and told my friend that there should have been a bell around here shortly after I had to use the restroom and when I got back my friend had the bell in his hand when i asked him how he found it he told me he asked for it and there it was later on in the same room my brother had brought me a mini figure for DnD that the base had broken on to see if I could fix it I was on my way to work so I told him to leave it in my room and I'd figure something out when I got home but it was gone when I got back from work when I asked my brother about it he had no idea what happened to it and threw out the remaining peace of the base and recently in our new house in Oklahoma the peace of base that my brother threw out spontaneously reappeared underneath my brother's chair
Brownies drive me insane... well... one brownie in particular. Fckr thinks he knows everything and will move things WHILE I'm actively cleaning or cooking then I'll hear little giggles and things like "no not that way." "Only this way" "you wrong. I know. You not know." Like dude. Stop it. And no I'm not schizophrenic, at least according to my therapist and my children who also experience the fckr 😂
When it comes to good or evil fairy creatures it gets confusing as to the way they are portrayed in movies or books Authors and producers have there own ideas of how to portray them I like to research things and it would turn out they are described much differently than movies or novels portray them
It's a good thing you said milk curdling and not heavy cream or half and half curdling. Because my milk usually is pretty okay. But my goodness it seems as if I can't seem to keep cream for very long.
I thought Pennywise was a boggart canonically? Did I misunderstand the whole thing? Even the movie had it looking very boggart-like at the end... I always thought that Pennywise came from the faerie world.
I thought it was an alien - could definitely be wrong though as it's a looong time since I read IT. I remember the ending being very cosmic and strange. Pennywise certainly shares a lot of characteristics with boggarts so you could be right!
@BeastsoftheOldeWorld According to some videos on RU-vid, he is a "cosmic" being that's millions of years old so if they're to be believed then you're right.
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
Really good video, thank you. I don’t think JKR needed mentioning as much, as with other creatures she doesn’t know much and doesn’t look into them. Your video would have been good for her haha! Looking forward to watching your other videos.
I am SO SICK of the silly and massively unsubtle AI imagery. Its use is to me a mark of extreme laziness and lack of creativity. Why not use contemporary paintings, drawings or woodcuts? Almost all are in the public domain. And you'd wind up with a much more realistic and sympathetic presentation.
I appreciate you sharing your perspective, but I feel I have to challenge a couple of points. I understand that AI imagery isn’t for everyone, but branding the channel’s content as 'extreme laziness' and uncreative feels very unfair. I spend weeks researching and writing each script; all the stories are adapted and rewritten in my own style and voice, and I feature original narrative poetry when necessary. All of this is done in my spare time - every evening and weekend, often at the expense of family time. AI imagery allows me to create custom visuals with a consistent tone and style for each video, something that wouldn’t be feasible using public domain art. It also wouldn’t be time-effective to spend hours searching the internet for images that don’t quite fit with the script when I can achieve a better result much quicker with AI, especially given the constraints of working full-time in a day job. Even if I had more time, I’d devote it to deeper research and refining scripts rather than searching for mismatched images from the public domain. If I did do that, the result in my view would be a disjointed visual style with unnecessary repetition of images. This is not an art channel; it’s about folklore and mythology. The value lies in the script and the narrative, with the visuals there to complement these more important elements. I recognize this might come across as defensive, but given the time and effort I invest in this channel, being labelled extremely lazy and uncreative is not something I am willing to accept. That said, I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, and thanks for watching.
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?
