Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters

• 其他作者：
  • Goodare, Julian. editor of compilation.
  • Wasser, Michael, 1959- Scotland's first witch-hunt.
• 其他題名：
  • Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic
• 出版： New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic
• 主題： Witch hunting--Scotland--History. , Witches--Scotland--History. , BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Parapsychology / General , BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Witchcraft & Wicca. , HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. , HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century. , HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century. , HISTORY / Social History. , Witch hunting. , Witches. , Scotland. , Electronic books. , History
• ISBN： 1137355948 (electronic bk.) 、 9781137355942 (electronic bk.)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. 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.
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• 摘要註: "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"--
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