[PDF] Magic And Witchcraft In Scotland eBook

Author : Joyce Miller
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :

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A fascinating examination into the belief and practice of magic by ordinary people in Scotland in the medieval and early modern period. The book explains not only what was done but, crucially, also why, with sections on healing rituals, use of wells

Author : Barbara Meiklejohn-Free
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738761192

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Hear the Call of the Highlands for Powerful Magick, Healing, and Divination Take a journey through the magickal folk traditions of Scotland. Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, a Scottish hereditary witch, shares her own spiritual awakening into the craft and shows you how to integrate these practices into your own life. Discover the secrets of divination, scrying, faery magick, and communication with ancestors. Explore herb and plant lore and specific rituals to address what you most desire. Filled with inspiring anecdotes, craft history, and step-by-step instructions, this book will help you begin a new chapter of spiritual discovery.

Author : J. Goodare
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 023059140X

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This pioneering collection concentrates on witchcraft beliefs rather than witch-hunting. It ranges widely across areas of popular belief, culture and ritual practice, as well as dealing with intellectual life and incorporating regional and comparative elements.

Author : Lawrence Normand
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2022-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1802079300

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This volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge and demonologist. It provides hitherto unpublished and inaccessible material from the legal documentation of the trials in a way that makes the material fully comprehensible, as well as full texts of the pamphlet News from Scotland and James' Demonology, all in a readable, modernised, scholarly form. Full introductory sections and supporting notes provide information about the contexts needed to understand the texts: court politics, social history and culture, religious changes, law and the workings of the court, and the history of witchcraft prosecutions in Scotland before 1590. The book also brings to bear on this material current scholarship on the history of European witchcraft.

Author : Liv Helene Willumsen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9004252924

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Witches of the North. Scotland and Finnmark is a comparative study of witchcraft persecution in Scotland and Finnmark, Norway. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative analyses based mainly on legal documents shed light on the witch-hunts in the two regions during the seventeenth century. Statistical analyses give information about tendencies in the source material in total. The qualitative chapters contain close-readings of trial documents, wherein the various voices heard during a trial are analysed: the voice of the scribe, the voice of the law, the voice of the accused person and the voices of the witnesses. The analyses combined provide a broad view of the historical phenomenon in question as well as in-depth studies of individual witchcraft cases.

Author : P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781862321366

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Synthesizing the evidence for magic and witchcraft in 16th-century Scotland, this book profiles unpublished manuscripts, 19th- and early-20th-century transcriptions, and passing remarks in the histories of shires and boroughs. Preliminary suggestions are made about how these sources can be interpreted, so that nature scholars of Scottish witchcraft in particular will be able to more easily construct their theories with the analyses provided.

Author : A. Rowlands
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0230248373

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Men – as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed – are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France.

Author : J. Goodare
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1137355948

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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.