Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters / edited By Julian Goodare, Reader in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Date:
2013
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"Bringing together twelve studies, this book provides an overview of the key issues of on-going interest in the study of Scottish witchcraft. The authors tackle various aspects of the question of witches; considering how people came to be considered 'witches', with new insights into the centrality of neighbourhood quarrels and misfortune; and delving into folk belief and various acts of witchcraft. It also examines the practice of witch-hunting, the 'urban geography' of witch-hunting, Scotland's international witch-hunting connections and brings fresh insights to the much-studied North Berwick witchcraft panic. Reconstructions of the brutal and ceremonial punishments inflicted on 'witches' offers a gruesome but compelling reminder of the importance of the subject"-- Provided by publisher.

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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Physical description

xii, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

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Contents

Introduction / Julian Goodare -- 1. Scotland's first witch-hunt : the eastern witch-hunt of 1568-1569 / Michael Wasser -- 2. The Countess of Angus's escape from the North Berwick witch-hunt / Victoria Carr -- 3. Exporting the devil across the North Sea : John Cunningham and the Finnmark witch-hunt / Liv Helene Willumsen -- 4. The witch, the household and the community : Isobel Young in East Barns, 1580-1629 / Lauren Martin -- 5. Witch-hunting in Scotland, 1649-1650 / Paula Hughes -- Reputation and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century Dalkeith / Anna Cordey -- 7. Outside In or inside out : sleep paralysis and Scottish witchcraft / Margaret Dudley and Julian Goodare -- 8. 'We Mey Shoot Them Dead at Our Pleasur' : Isobel Gowdie, elf-arrows and dark shamanism / Emma Wilby -- 9. Flying witches in Scotland / Julian Goodare -- 10. The urban geography of witch-hunting in Scotland / Alistair Henderson -- 11. Executing Scottish witches / Laura Paterson -- 12. Decline and survival in Scottish witch-hunting, 1701-1727 / Alexandra Hill -- Bibliography of Scottish witchcraft / Julian Goodare.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-245) and index.

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  • 9781137355935
  • 113735593X
  • 9781403995674
  • 1403995672