Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters

Folger bibliographic ID: 336045
Folger call number: BF1581 .S344 2013
Folger holdings ID: 487094

"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"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction; Julian Goodare1.Scotland's First Witch-Hunt: The Eastern Witch-Hunt of 1568-1569; Michael Wasser2.The Countess of Angus's Escape from the North Berwick Witch-Hunt; Victoria Carr3.Exporting the Devil across the North Sea: John Cunningham and the Finnmark Witch-Hunt; Liv Helene Willumsen4.The Witch, the Household and the Community: Isobel Young in East Barns, 1580-1629; Lauren Martin5.Reputation and Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century Dalkeith; Anna Cordey6.Witch-Hunting in Scotland, 1649-1650; Paula Hughes7.Outside In or Inside Out: Sleep Paralysis and Scottish Witchcraft; Margaret Dudley & Julian Goodare8.'We Mey Shoot Them Dead at Our Pleasur': Isobel Gowdie, Elf-Arrows and Dark Shamanism; Emma Wilby9.Flying Witches in Scotland; Julian Goodare10. The Urban Geography of Witch-Hunting in Scotland; Alistair Henderson11. Executing Scottish Witches; Laura Paterson12. Decline and Survival in Scottish Witch-Hunting, 1701-1727; Alexandra HillBibliography of Scottish Witchcraft; Julian GoodareIndex

Extended title: Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters / Edited By Julian Goodare, Reader in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh, UK

Witches Witch hunting HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century HISTORY / Social History BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Witchcraft & Wicca

editor: Goodare, Julian