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Scottish Witchcraft Narratives and Tracts

Scottish Witchcraft Narratives and Tracts

Hardcover

Series: Scottish History Society 6th, Book 22

General European History

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ISBN10: 0906245524
ISBN13: 9780906245521
Publisher: Scottish History Society
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book is a scholarly edition of primary sources for witch-hunting and demonic possession in Scotland. It contains narratives of remarkable witchcraft prosecutions, and tracts expounding witchcraft theory.

The narratives provide the intense emotional drama, eye-catching colour and nightmarish horror that made witchcraft such a compelling idea. The accused witches' own voices are sometimes heard, under the harrowing circumstances of interrogation under torture. Meanwhile, educated ministers and lawyers develop their theoretical ideas about witches and the Devil. Not every theorist agrees with the prosecutions, and doubts arise that would eventually lead witch-hunting to lose its credibility. The book's most detailed narrative concerns the Bargarran witches of 1697, in which seven witches were executed for the demonic possession of the 11-year-old Christian Shaw. The book shows how this was connected with the sensational witchcraft panic in 1692 at Salem, Massachusetts.

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Goodare, Julian

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General European History