Title: Scottish Witches And Witchhunters
Description: "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"--
Subjects: Witchcraft, great britain, Occultists, Witches, History, Witch hunting, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Social History, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Witchcraft & Wicca