The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context
The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context
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ISBN No.: 9780719060243
Pages: 240
Year: 200206
Format: Trade Paper
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Preface List of Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on contributors 1. Introduction - Julian Goodare 2. The global context of the Scottish witch-hunt - Ronald Hutton 3. In search of the Devil in Fife witchcraft cases, 1560-1705 - Stuart MacDonald 4. The Scottish witchcraft panic of 1597 - Julian Goodare 5. The Devil and the domestic: witchcraft, quarrels and women's work in Scotland - Lauren Martin 6. Devices and directions: folk healing aspects of witchcraft practice in seventeenth-century Scotland - Joyce Miller 7. Hunting the rich witch in Scotland: high-status witchcraft suspects and their persecutors, 1590-1650 - Louise Yeoman 8.


Witch-hunting and the Scottish state - Julian Goodare 9. The western witch-hunt of 1697-1700: the last major witch-hunt in Scotland - Michael Wasser 10. The decline and end of Scottish witch-hunting - Brian P. Levack 11. Witch-hunting, witchcraft and witch historiography: England and Scotland compared - James A. Sharpe 12. The last of the witches: the survival of Scottish witch belief - Edward J. Cowan and Lizanne Henderson Further Reading.



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