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Scottish witches and witch-hunters
- Title
- Scottish witches and witch-hunters / edited by Julian Goodare, Reader in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh, UK.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- ©2013
- Supplementary Content
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- Additional Authors
- Goodare, Julian
- Description
- xii, 258 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-245) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-485
- ISBN
- 9781137355935 (hardback)
- 113735593X (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2013043645
- OCLC
- 848162904
- Title
- Scottish witches and witch-hunters / edited by Julian Goodare, Reader in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh, UK.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and MagicPalgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-245) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Goodare, Julian, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-485