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 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.

Julian Goodare is Reader in History, University of Edinburgh, UK. His books include The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context (eds., 2002), and Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland (co-edited with Lauren Martin and Joyce Miller, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). He was Director of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, which went online in 2003.

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

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Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters

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