Author: Robert Chambers
Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 658

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Author: Robert Chambers
Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: George Wilson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Author: Chambers W. and R., ltd
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Reform Club (London, England). Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Author: Sir A.W. Ward
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135162611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 936

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Volume 4 of the Cambrdige Modern History series covering the The Thirty Years' War.

Author: Brian P. Levack
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429603908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407

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Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award Witch-Hunting in Scotland presents a fresh perspective on the trial and execution of the hundreds of women and men prosecuted for the crime of witchcraft, an offence that involved the alleged practice of maleficent magic and the worship of the devil, for inflicting harm on their neighbours and making pacts with the devil. Brian P. Levack draws on law, politics and religion to explain the intensity of Scottish witch-hunting. Topics discussed include: the distinctive features of the Scottish criminal justice system the use of torture to extract confessions the intersection of witch-hunting with local and national politics the relationship between state-building and witch-hunting and the role of James VI Scottish Calvinism and the determination of zealous Scottish clergy and magistrates to achieve a godly society. This original survey combines broad interpretations of the rise and fall of Scottish witchcraft prosecutions with detailed case studies of specific witch-hunts. Witch-Hunting in Scotland makes fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in witchcraft or in the political, legal and religious history of the early modern period.

Author: Lizanne Henderson
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788854330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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The authorities told folk what they ought to believe, but what did they really believe? Throughout Scottish history, people have believed in fairies. They were a part of everyday life, as real as the sunrise, and as incontrovertible as the existence of God. While fairy belief was only a fragment of a much larger complex, the implications of studying this belief tradition are potentially vast, revealing some understanding of the worldview of the people of past centuries. This book, the first modern study of the subject, examines the history and nature of fairy belief, the major themes and motifs, the demonising attack upon the tradition, and the attempted reinstatement of the reality of fairies at the end of the seventeenth century, as well as their place in ballads and in Scottish literature.

Author: Public Library of Victoria
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 998

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385304806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.