Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740

Introduction: Following the Witch
1. Fixing the Limits of Belief
2. The Idea of Witchcraft
3. Demons, Devilry and Domestic Magic: Hunting Witches in Scotland
4. Darkness Visible
5. Bemused, Bothered and Bewildered: Witchcraft Debated
6. 'Worshipping at the Altar of Ignorance': Some Late Scottish Witchcraft Cases Considered
7. The Survival of Witch Belief in South West Scotland: A Case Study
8. The Persistence of Witch Belief
Conclusion

Author: Lizanne Henderson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 02/29/2016
Pages: 382
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780230294387

About the Author

Lizanne Henderson has been a lecturer and cultural historian at the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, UK since 2004. She is Editor of Review of Scottish Culture and has published on the Scottish witch-hunts, folk belief, ballads, critical animal studies, Scottish diaspora, polar explorers, and the transatlantic slave trade. Her books include Fantastical Imaginations: The Supernatural in Scottish History and Culture (2009) and, with Edward J. Cowan, Scottish Fairy Belief: A History (2001), and A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland, 1000 to 1600 (2011).