Simon Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 3798968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8835-7164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Suicide and Flowers: The Folklore of the Boy’s Grave (Suffolk)
This article concerns the folklore surrounding the Boy’s Grave, a wayside burial at a crossroads on the Suffolk–Cambridgeshire border. This grave has been decorated with flowers by anonymous caretakers for more than a century. Analysing historical sources from the early 1900s to the present, the study explores how competing narratives about the grave (suicide, murder, accident) reflect changing societal attitudes towards suicide burials. Comparin…
Acceptability and feasibility of a cognitive-behavioural intervention for pain management before total knee arthroplasty: A pilot trial
BACKGROUND: Although psychological factors predict the development of persistent pain after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), psychological interventions to prevent persistent pain are under-explored. This pilot trial evaluated the acceptability and feasibility of a cognitive-behavioural intervention targeting risk factors for post-surgical pain among patients scheduled for TKA (UTN: U1111-1243-1067/ACTRN12621001095853). METHODS: Patients with eleva…
The Deerness Mermaid, 1887-1899: Selkies, sideshows and silly seasons
Between 1887 and 1899, a mysterious sea creature known as the ‘Deerness Mermaid’ (DM) was repeatedly sighted off the coast of Orkney, Scotland. Reported by locals and widely covered in British newspapers, the DM became a fixture of the late Victorian ‘silly season,’ filling column inches with speculation and spectacle. Although likely an unusual seal, its long neck and humanoid swimming style led to claims that it was a mermaid — an interpretatio…
The ‘Black Gentry’: The Rookery and the Folklore of Desertion
Between the Restoration and the Second World War, rookeries had a special status in Britain and Ireland. They were closely associated with landowning families and rooks were protected in parks and large grounds. This strong form of identification opened the way to unusual popular beliefs around the rookery. There was particularly the notion that rooks deserted a rookery either as a reaction to bad news in ‘their’ family or as an omen of bad thing…
Legal Challenges to ICU Triage Decisions in the Covid-19 Pandemic: How Effectively Does the Law Regulate Bedside Rationing Decisions in Australia
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised the difficult question of how to ration scarce intensive care resources when a health system is overwhelmed. Despite substantial ethical scholarship addressing these rationing decisions, little is known about the legal position in Australia. This article considers various legal challenges in response to a clinical scenario denying intensive care admission and a ventilator to a critically ill patient with COVID-19.…
Mermaid Toponyms in the West Indies: Traditional and non-traditional names
The study brings together fourteen landscape place names with the element 'mermaid' from the West Indies. The locations range from a coastal cave in Bermuda, in the north, to an inland pool in Trinidad, in the south. Some of these names are linked to regional folklore; some are arguably confected names invented, for instance, to encourage tourism. The author asks what markers can help us distinguish between folklore and confected names and ends w…
Mermaids, Mere-Maids and No Maids: Mermaid place names and folklore in Britain
Fifty mermaid place names relating to landscape features have been identified in Britain (including the Isle of Man). The names are attested from the 16th to the 21st Century: some are extremely well documented, while others have only passing written references. Taken together these names allow us to distinguish different folklore traditions in different parts of the island. For instance, there is a freshwater 'mere-maid' in eastern England; and …
Public bogies and supernatural landscapes in North-Western England in the 1800s
The author maps the supernatural onto the landscape of eleven nineteenth-century, north-western communities: Bradford (WY), Burnley (La), Delph-Dobcross (WY), Droylsden (La), Gorton (La), Greenfield (WY), Hawkshead (La), Lees (La), Moston (La), Natland (We) and Worsthorne (La). Here locals feared boggarts, dobbies, fairies and phantom dogs and ‘public bogies’ (celebrated local spirits) were often associated with specific points in the landscape. …
What’s Up Doc? Seventh Sons in Victorian and Edwardian Lancashire
Folklorists have long acknowledged that seventh sons had a reputation as healers in England. It has not previously been appreciated that in the region around Blackburn, Lancashire, seventh sons were frequently given the Christian name ‘Doctor’ in Victorian and Edwardian times. This article examines seventh-son traditions there and their connection to healing by reconstituting families with sons named ‘Doctor’. The article finishes with two reflec…
The Increments of Justice: Exploring the Outer Reach of Akiba’s Edge towards Native Title ‘Ownership
The Torres Strait regional sea claim, culminating in the High Court decision of Akiba v Commonwealth, signalled a new respect for the holistic relationships and dominion that underlay First Peoples’ custodianship of land and waters. The ‘Akiba correction’ centred upon a distinction between ‘underlying rights’ and specific exercises of them – and produced in that case a surviving right to take resources for any purpose (subject to current regulati…
And a Historical Folklore Survey? A Reply to John Widdowson’s ‘New Beginnings’
This note is written in support of John Widdowson’s recent reflections on the direction of folklore studies in Britain. A general discussion is in everyone’s interest and with his words Widdowson has given a gentle whack to the beehive. This article offers more of the same, although from the perspective of historical folklore
Joseph Wright meets the Boggart
In 1898, Joseph Wright dedicated almost a thousand words to ‘boggart’, a term for a supernatural entity, used in the north-west of England, in his Dialect Dictionary. While Wright’s analysis of the word is by far the most thorough ever written, a careful survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries’ sources allows some extra senses and meanings to be teased out. We offer here a series of words and phrases that Wright covered but where the range…
The Reay Mermaids: In the Bay and in the Press
C. 1798 and then again in 1809 a mermaid was seen at Reay on the very northern coast of Scotland. These two mermaid sightings were both described in
“Her Room was Her World”: Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish Folklore
Nellie Sloggett (1850–1923) was a Cornish novelist and, under the name Enys Tregarthen, a folklore writer. This article * has four aims. First, to bring together all the biographical information about Sloggett. Second, to make the point that Sloggett’s writing is useful for folklorists: she has, since her death, been neglected even by south-western scholars. Third, to situate her work in the broader British and Irish folklore movement: her corpus…
The Moscow Olympics and the Role of the Security Services in Late Soviet Politics, 1975–1980
Historians’ understanding of the involvement of the Soviet security services in the orchestration of the Moscow Olympics has heretofore been based on unsubstantiated rumours and anecdotes. Using previously unavailable sources, this article reveals for the first time how the ussr ’s coercive apparatus was mobilized to both neutralize perceived threats to Soviet national security produced by the Olympiad and assist the cpsu in using it to promote S…
A History of the Fairy Investigation Society, 1927–1960
The Fairy Investigation Society was an interwar British organization with its roots in English spiritualism. The organization was operational from 1927 to the years immediately before the Second World War. The Society was then refounded shortly after that conflict and was managed by Marjorie Johnson until the 1960s. In this article it is argued that a book published by Johnson in German in 1996, Naturgeister, contains some records and biographica…
Three Notes on West Yorkshire Fairies in the Nineteenth Century
The following notes are all based on newspaper and magazine reports from the last third of the nineteenth century. These are ephemeral pieces that have been overlooked by folklorists, but which give some precious glimpses of the last generations of fairy belief in the West Riding
Imagining Alterity and Belonging on the English Stage in an Age of Expansion: A reading of Othello
The Master of the Revels of the Jacobean court records a performance of The Moor of Venis by Shaxberd in November 1604. The timing and the setting of this first performance of Othello in the court of James I, almost 20 years before it appeared in quarto, are of interest for a reflection on the relationship between the play's exploration of alterity and the construction of 'Englishness'. The play comes into being within the English court, rather t…
Changes in SWB following injury to different brain lobes
The Unknown God
And a Historical Folklore Survey? A Reply to John Widdowson’s ‘New Beginnings’
This note is written in support of John Widdowson’s recent reflections on the direction of folklore studies in Britain. A general discussion is in everyone’s interest and with his words Widdowson has given a gentle whack to the beehive. This article offers more of the same, although from the perspective of historical folklore
A History of the Fairy Investigation Society, 1927–1960
The Fairy Investigation Society was an interwar British organization with its roots in English spiritualism. The organization was operational from 1927 to the years immediately before the Second World War. The Society was then refounded shortly after that conflict and was managed by Marjorie Johnson until the 1960s. In this article it is argued that a book published by Johnson in German in 1996, Naturgeister, contains some records and biographica…
Three Notes on West Yorkshire Fairies in the Nineteenth Century
The following notes are all based on newspaper and magazine reports from the last third of the nineteenth century. These are ephemeral pieces that have been overlooked by folklorists, but which give some precious glimpses of the last generations of fairy belief in the West Riding
Imagining Alterity and Belonging on the English Stage in an Age of Expansion: A reading of Othello
The Master of the Revels of the Jacobean court records a performance of The Moor of Venis by Shaxberd in November 1604. The timing and the setting of this first performance of Othello in the court of James I, almost 20 years before it appeared in quarto, are of interest for a reflection on the relationship between the play's exploration of alterity and the construction of 'Englishness'. The play comes into being within the English court, rather t…
The Unknown God
Changes in SWB following injury to different brain lobes
Imagining Alterity and Belonging on the English Stage in an Age of Expansion: A reading of Othello
The Master of the Revels of the Jacobean court records a performance of The Moor of Venis by Shaxberd in November 1604. The timing and the setting of this first performance of Othello in the court of James I, almost 20 years before it appeared in quarto, are of interest for a reflection on the relationship between the play's exploration of alterity and the construction of 'Englishness'. The play comes into being within the English court, rather t…
Three Notes on West Yorkshire Fairies in the Nineteenth Century
The following notes are all based on newspaper and magazine reports from the last third of the nineteenth century. These are ephemeral pieces that have been overlooked by folklorists, but which give some precious glimpses of the last generations of fairy belief in the West Riding
A History of the Fairy Investigation Society, 1927–1960
The Fairy Investigation Society was an interwar British organization with its roots in English spiritualism. The organization was operational from 1927 to the years immediately before the Second World War. The Society was then refounded shortly after that conflict and was managed by Marjorie Johnson until the 1960s. In this article it is argued that a book published by Johnson in German in 1996, Naturgeister, contains some records and biographica…
The Moscow Olympics and the Role of the Security Services in Late Soviet Politics, 1975–1980
Historians’ understanding of the involvement of the Soviet security services in the orchestration of the Moscow Olympics has heretofore been based on unsubstantiated rumours and anecdotes. Using previously unavailable sources, this article reveals for the first time how the ussr ’s coercive apparatus was mobilized to both neutralize perceived threats to Soviet national security produced by the Olympiad and assist the cpsu in using it to promote S…
“Her Room was Her World”: Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish Folklore
Nellie Sloggett (1850–1923) was a Cornish novelist and, under the name Enys Tregarthen, a folklore writer. This article * has four aims. First, to bring together all the biographical information about Sloggett. Second, to make the point that Sloggett’s writing is useful for folklorists: she has, since her death, been neglected even by south-western scholars. Third, to situate her work in the broader British and Irish folklore movement: her corpus…
And a Historical Folklore Survey? A Reply to John Widdowson’s ‘New Beginnings’
This note is written in support of John Widdowson’s recent reflections on the direction of folklore studies in Britain. A general discussion is in everyone’s interest and with his words Widdowson has given a gentle whack to the beehive. This article offers more of the same, although from the perspective of historical folklore
Joseph Wright meets the Boggart
In 1898, Joseph Wright dedicated almost a thousand words to ‘boggart’, a term for a supernatural entity, used in the north-west of England, in his Dialect Dictionary. While Wright’s analysis of the word is by far the most thorough ever written, a careful survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries’ sources allows some extra senses and meanings to be teased out. We offer here a series of words and phrases that Wright covered but where the range…
The Reay Mermaids: In the Bay and in the Press
C. 1798 and then again in 1809 a mermaid was seen at Reay on the very northern coast of Scotland. These two mermaid sightings were both described in
What’s Up Doc? Seventh Sons in Victorian and Edwardian Lancashire
Folklorists have long acknowledged that seventh sons had a reputation as healers in England. It has not previously been appreciated that in the region around Blackburn, Lancashire, seventh sons were frequently given the Christian name ‘Doctor’ in Victorian and Edwardian times. This article examines seventh-son traditions there and their connection to healing by reconstituting families with sons named ‘Doctor’. The article finishes with two reflec…
The Increments of Justice: Exploring the Outer Reach of Akiba’s Edge towards Native Title ‘Ownership
The Torres Strait regional sea claim, culminating in the High Court decision of Akiba v Commonwealth, signalled a new respect for the holistic relationships and dominion that underlay First Peoples’ custodianship of land and waters. The ‘Akiba correction’ centred upon a distinction between ‘underlying rights’ and specific exercises of them – and produced in that case a surviving right to take resources for any purpose (subject to current regulati…
Public bogies and supernatural landscapes in North-Western England in the 1800s
The author maps the supernatural onto the landscape of eleven nineteenth-century, north-western communities: Bradford (WY), Burnley (La), Delph-Dobcross (WY), Droylsden (La), Gorton (La), Greenfield (WY), Hawkshead (La), Lees (La), Moston (La), Natland (We) and Worsthorne (La). Here locals feared boggarts, dobbies, fairies and phantom dogs and ‘public bogies’ (celebrated local spirits) were often associated with specific points in the landscape. …
Legal Challenges to ICU Triage Decisions in the Covid-19 Pandemic: How Effectively Does the Law Regulate Bedside Rationing Decisions in Australia
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised the difficult question of how to ration scarce intensive care resources when a health system is overwhelmed. Despite substantial ethical scholarship addressing these rationing decisions, little is known about the legal position in Australia. This article considers various legal challenges in response to a clinical scenario denying intensive care admission and a ventilator to a critically ill patient with COVID-19.…
Mermaid Toponyms in the West Indies: Traditional and non-traditional names
The study brings together fourteen landscape place names with the element 'mermaid' from the West Indies. The locations range from a coastal cave in Bermuda, in the north, to an inland pool in Trinidad, in the south. Some of these names are linked to regional folklore; some are arguably confected names invented, for instance, to encourage tourism. The author asks what markers can help us distinguish between folklore and confected names and ends w…
Mermaids, Mere-Maids and No Maids: Mermaid place names and folklore in Britain
Fifty mermaid place names relating to landscape features have been identified in Britain (including the Isle of Man). The names are attested from the 16th to the 21st Century: some are extremely well documented, while others have only passing written references. Taken together these names allow us to distinguish different folklore traditions in different parts of the island. For instance, there is a freshwater 'mere-maid' in eastern England; and …
The ‘Black Gentry’: The Rookery and the Folklore of Desertion
Between the Restoration and the Second World War, rookeries had a special status in Britain and Ireland. They were closely associated with landowning families and rooks were protected in parks and large grounds. This strong form of identification opened the way to unusual popular beliefs around the rookery. There was particularly the notion that rooks deserted a rookery either as a reaction to bad news in ‘their’ family or as an omen of bad thing…
Acceptability and feasibility of a cognitive-behavioural intervention for pain management before total knee arthroplasty: A pilot trial
BACKGROUND: Although psychological factors predict the development of persistent pain after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), psychological interventions to prevent persistent pain are under-explored. This pilot trial evaluated the acceptability and feasibility of a cognitive-behavioural intervention targeting risk factors for post-surgical pain among patients scheduled for TKA (UTN: U1111-1243-1067/ACTRN12621001095853). METHODS: Patients with eleva…
The Deerness Mermaid, 1887-1899: Selkies, sideshows and silly seasons
Between 1887 and 1899, a mysterious sea creature known as the ‘Deerness Mermaid’ (DM) was repeatedly sighted off the coast of Orkney, Scotland. Reported by locals and widely covered in British newspapers, the DM became a fixture of the late Victorian ‘silly season,’ filling column inches with speculation and spectacle. Although likely an unusual seal, its long neck and humanoid swimming style led to claims that it was a mermaid — an interpretatio…
Suicide and Flowers: The Folklore of the Boy’s Grave (Suffolk)
This article concerns the folklore surrounding the Boy’s Grave, a wayside burial at a crossroads on the Suffolk–Cambridgeshire border. This grave has been decorated with flowers by anonymous caretakers for more than a century. Analysing historical sources from the early 1900s to the present, the study explores how competing narratives about the grave (suicide, murder, accident) reflect changing societal attitudes towards suicide burials. Comparin…
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