page_title: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
hierarchical_section_title: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page of the first edition of Sir Walter Scott's Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (1830).
context_page_description: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq. was a study of witchcraft and the supernatural by Sir Walter Scott. A lifelong student of folklore, Scott was able to draw on a wide-ranging collection of primary and secondary sources. His book found many readers throughout the 19th century, and exercised a significant influence in promoting the Victorian vogue for Gothic and ghostly fiction. Though on first publication it met with mixed reviews, it is now recognised as a pioneering work of scientific anthropology, treating of its subject in an acute and analytical way which prefigures later scholarship on the subject, as well as presenting a highly readable collection of supernatural anecdotes.
context_section_description: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq. (1830) was a study of witchcraft and the supernatural by Sir Walter Scott.  A lifelong student of folklore, Scott was able to draw on a wide-ranging collection of primary and secondary sources.  His book found many readers throughout the 19th century, and exercised a significant influence in promoting the Victorian vogue for Gothic and ghostly fiction.  Though on first publication it met with mixed reviews, it is now recognised as a pioneering work of scientific anthropology, treating of its subject in an acute and analytical way which prefigures later scholarship on the subject, as well as presenting a highly readable collection of supernatural anecdotes.
caption: Title-page of the first edition
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