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| ISBN | Cover | Title | Author | Publisher | Year | Description | Ref. |
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Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: King James' "Demonology" and the North Berwick Witches | Normand, Lawrence; Roberts, Gareth | University of Exeter Press | 2000 | Witchunting in the 16th and 17th centuries in Scotland was used as a means of social control and King James VI even wrote a treatise on the subject. That work is included in the book, together with other historical essays and also commentaries on the history of the witch trials. Of particular interest are the North Berwick witches who, in 1591, were accused of trying to destroy James. Hence his treatise. | 864 |
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Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: King James' "Demonology" and the North Berwick Witches | Normand, Lawrence; Roberts, Gareth | University of Exeter Press | 2000 | Witchunting in the 16th and 17th centuries in Scotland was used as a means of social control and King James VI even wrote a treatise on the subject. That work is included in the book, together with other historical essays and also commentaries on the history of the witch trials. Of particular interest are the North Berwick witches who, in 1591, were accused of trying to destroy James. Hence his treatise. | 866 |
| 1899874461 | no image available | Magic and Witchcraft in Scotland | Joyce Miller | Goblinshead | 2004 | Belief in the supernatural is common in many societies and in Scotland it has had a tragic history, especially in the mid-sixteenth to the early 18th centuries when some four thousand people were accused of witchcraft. As well as dealing with that history, the book surveys magic beliefs and practices in Scotland and many of the old traditions which are still in existence today. There is also information on associated sites which can be visited. | 1371 |
| 1843954052 | |
Supernatural Scotland | Roddy Martine | Ulverscroft Large Print Editions | 2004 | This is the author`s account of his research into some of Scotland`s many tales of "supernatural" and other unexplained happenings. Ghosts, people possessed of "second sight" and "small people" form part of his investigations into some of the country`s strangest pieces of folklore. | 1403 |
| 0300083068 | no image available | General Correspondence of James Boswell: 1757-1763, The | Hankins, David (ed.) | Yale University Press | 2004 | James Boswell (1740-95) was a keen observer of all that went on around him and this collection of 121 letters are from the period 1760-63. They generally cover the period after his first visit to London and they include his second visit. They describe his experiences there, his first meeting with Samuel Johnson and the publication of Boswell`s first book-length work. | 1148 |
| 1886913560 | |
Scotland Is not for the Squeamish | Bill Watkins | Ruminator Books | 2004 | The author describes life as a young man in Scotland, with his exploits ranging from being shanghaied on a ship to the Arctic Circle to encounters with Druid magic. | 1526 |
| 0853898634 | no image available | To the Other Shore: Cross-currents in Irish and Scottish Studies | Neal Alexander, Shane Murphy, Anne Oakman (Eds.) | Queen's University Belfast | 2004 | This collection of papers covers the following topics in the context of Scotland and Ireland: poetic self-representation, fiction and cultural politics, history and historiography, ethnography and language, women's writing, and the politics of representation. | 1515 |