J. Goodare 
Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters [PDF ebook] 

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This book brings together twelve studies that collectively provide an overview of the main issues of live interest in Scottish witchcraft. As well as fresh studies of the well-established topic of witch-hunting, the book also launches an exploration of some of the more esoteric aspects of magical belief and practice.

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Table of Content

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. Reputation and Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century Dalkeith; Anna Cordey 6. Witch-Hunting in Scotland, 1649-1650; Paula Hughes 7. Outside In or Inside Out: Sleep Paralysis and Scottish Witchcraft; Margaret Dudley & 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 Index

About the author

Victoria Carr, Postgraduate student, University of Bristol, UK Anna Cordey, teacher, Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, UK Margaret Dudley, community worker, Edinburgh, UK Alistair Henderson, archivist Alexandra Hill, solicitor, London, UK Paula Hughes, Ph D graduate, University of Strathclyde, UK Lauren Martin, Director of Research, University of Minnesota, USA Laura Paterson, Postgraduate student, University of Strathclyde, UK Michael Wasser, teacher, Dawson College, Montreal, Canada Emma Wilby, Honorary Fellow, University of Exeter, UK Liv Helene Willumsen, Professor, University of Tromsø, Norway

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 258 ● ISBN 9781137355942 ● File size 3.9 MB ● Editor J. Goodare ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 3091740 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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