Scottish Witches and Witch Hunters

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Scottish Witches and Witch Hunters

Author	: J. Goodare
File Size	: 49,8 Mb
Publisher	: Springer
Language	: English
Release Date	: 31 October 2013
ISBN	: 9781137355942
Pages	: 258 pages

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Scottish Witches and Witch Hunters by J. Goodare Book PDF Summary

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.

Scottish Witches and Witch Hunters by J. Goodare

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The Scottish Witch Hunt in Context by Julian Goodare

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Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reality of what happened the night that Janet Cornfoot was lynched at Pittenweem is hard to grasp as one sits by the harbour watching the fishing boats unload

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An Abundance of Witches by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart

Scotland, as with the rest of Europe, was troubled from time to time by outbreaks of witchcraft which the authorities sought to contain and then to suppress, and the outbreak of 1658-1662 is generally agreed to represent the high water mark of Scottish persecution. These were peculiar years for Scotland.

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Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award Witch-Hunting in Scotland presents a fresh perspective on the trial and execution of the hundreds of women and men prosecuted for the crime of witchcraft, an offence that involved the alleged practice of maleficent magic and the worship of the devil, for inflicting harm

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Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment by Lizanne Henderson

Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment represents the first in-depth investigation of Scottish witchcraft and witch belief post-1662, the period of supposed decline of such beliefs, an age which has been referred to as the 'long eighteenth century', coinciding with the Scottish Enlightenment.

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