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Scottish witchcraft narratives and tracts
2026
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This volume is a scholarly collection of primary sources for witch-hunting and demonic possession in Scotland. It contains narratives of remarkable witchcraft prosecutions, and tracts expounding witchcraft theory. The narratives provide the intense emotional drama, eye-catching colour and nightmarish horror that made witchcraft such a compelling idea. The accused witches' own voices are sometimes heard, under the harrowing circumstances of interrogation under torture. Meanwhile, educated ministers and lawyers develop their theoretical ideas about witches and the Devil. Not every theorist agrees with the prosecutions, and doubts arise that would eventually lead witch-hunting to lose its credibility. The book's most detailed narrative concerns the Bargarran witches of 1697, in which seven witches were executed for the demonic possession of the 11-year-old Christian Shaw.
Main title:
Scottish witchcraft narratives and tracts / edited by Julian Goodare.
Author:
Goodare, Julian, editor
Imprint:
St. Andrews : Scottish History Society, 2026.
Collation:
392 pages ; 22 cm.
Series title:
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780906245521 (hbk)
Dewey class:
133.430941109032
LC class:
BF1581
Local class:
133.43
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4399193