Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters /
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 cen...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Series: | Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.
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| 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 neighborhood 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137355935 (hardback) 113735593X (hardback) |