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Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Julian Goodare

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic (PHSWM)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Julian Goodare
    Pages 1-16

  3. ScotlancTs First Witch-Hunt: The Eastern Witch-Hunt of 1568–1569

    • Michael Wasser
    Pages 17-33

  4. The Countess of Angus’s Escape from the North Berwick Witch-Hunt

    • Victoria Carr
    Pages 34-48

  5. Exporting the Devil across the North Sea: John Cunningham and the Finnmark Witch-Hunt

    • Liv Helene Willumsen
    Pages 49-66

  6. The Witch, the Household and the Community: Isobel Young in East Barns, 1580–1629

    • Lauren Martin
    Pages 67-84

  7. Witch-Hunting in Scotland, 1649–1650

    • Paula Hughes
    Pages 85-102

  8. Reputation and Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century Dalkeith

    • Anna Cordey
    Pages 103-120

  9. Outside In or Inside Out: Sleep Paralysis and Scottish Witchcraft

    • Margaret Dudley, Julian Goodare
    Pages 121-139

  10. ‘We mey shoot them dead at our pleasur’: Isobel Gowdie, Elf Arrows and Dark Shamanism

    • Emma Wilby
    Pages 140-158

  11. Flying Witches in Scotland

    • Julian Goodare
    Pages 159-176

  12. The Urban Geography of Witch-Hunting in Scotland

    • Alistair Henderson
    Pages 177-195

  13. Executing Scottish Witches

    • Laura Paterson
    Pages 196-214

  14. Decline and Survival in Scottish Witch-Hunting, 1701–1727

    • Alexandra Hill
    Pages 215-233

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 234-258
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About this book

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.

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“This is a book that is fresh and thought-provoking, and its authors are to be congratulated on their varied, precise, and well-researched contributions. … Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters is a fantastically useful resource, and can only further stimulate work in the area. Julian Goodare and his team of contributors have given us a wide-ranging, provocative, and deeply scholarly volume, in which all the chapters are valuable, and the whole really is more than the sum of the parts.” (Marion Gibson, Folklore, Vol. 126 (3), 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    Julian Goodare

About the editor

Victoria Carr, Postgraduate student, University of Bristol, UK Anna Cordey, teacher, Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, UK Margaret Dudley, community worker, Edinburgh, UK Alistair Henderson, archivist Alexandra Hill, solicitor, London, UK Paula Hughes, PhD graduate, University of Strathclyde, UK Lauren Martin, Director of Research, University of Minnesota, USA Laura Paterson, Postgraduate student, University of Strathclyde, UK Michael Wasser, teacher, Dawson College, Montreal, Canada Emma Wilby, Honorary Fellow, University of Exeter, UK Liv Helene Willumsen, Professor, University of Tromsø, Norway

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