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The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context
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Preface
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Notes on contributors
1. Introduction - Julian Goodare
2. The global context of the Scottish witch-hunt - Ronald Hutton
3. In search of the Devil in Fife witchcraft cases, 1560-1705 - Stuart MacDonald
4. The Scottish witchcraft panic of 1597 - Julian Goodare
5. The Devil and the domestic: witchcraft, quarrels and women’s work in Scotland - Lauren Martin
6. Devices and directions: folk healing aspects of witchcraft practice in seventeenth-century Scotland - Joyce Miller
7. Hunting the rich witch in Scotland: high-status witchcraft suspects and their persecutors, 1590-1650 - Louise Yeoman
8. Witch-hunting and the Scottish state - Julian Goodare
9. The western witch-hunt of 1697-1700: the last major witch-hunt in Scotland - Michael Wasser
10. The decline and end of Scottish witch-hunting - Brian P. Levack
11. Witch-hunting, witchcraft and witch historiography: England and Scotland compared - James A. Sharpe
12. The last of the witches: the survival of Scottish witch belief - Edward J. Cowan and Lizanne Henderson
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About the Author

Julian Goodare is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh

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"Indeed, the collection will be a valuable contribution to the whole field of witchcraft studies and find ready acceptance in many library collections and on course booklists."--Professor Stuart Clark, University of Wales, Swansea

“Indeed, the collection will be a valuable contribution to the whole field of witchcraft studies and find ready acceptance in many library collections and on course booklists.”—Professor Stuart Clark, University of Wales, Swansea

" Indeed, the collection will be a valuable contribution to the whole field of witchcraft studies and find ready acceptance in many library collections and on course booklists." -- Professor Stuart Clark, University of Wales, Swansea

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