Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters

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.

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)

Autorentext
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

Inhalt
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