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| anon, author, in A warning to the wicked or Margaret Dickson's welcome to the gibbet. (Edinburgh, ) More details ... |
| Bawcutt, PriscillaLuuk, Houwen ""Holy Words for Healing": Some Early Scottish Charms and their Ancient Religious Roots" , in Literature and Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (Peeters, Leuven, 2012) More details ... |
| Black, George Fraser, in A Calendar of Witchcraft Cases in Scotland, 1510-1727. (New York Public Library, New York, 1938) More details ... |
| Brealey, Gena Kay, Hunter, in The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan. (Regency, London, 1985) More details ... |
| Brims, John "The Ross-shire witchcraft case of 1822" , in Review of Scottish Culture, vol.5 (1989) More details ... |
| Bruford, A.J. "Workers, weepers and witches: the status of the female singer in Gaelic society" , in Scottish Gaelic Studies 17 (1996) More details ... |
| Carr, Victoria "The Countess of Angus's Escape from the North Berwick Witch-Hunt" , in Goodare, Julian ed. Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters (Palgrave-Macmillan, Houndmills, 2013) More details ... |
| Cassirer, Manfred, in Medium on Trial (PN Publishing, Stanstead, Essex, 1996) More details ... |
| Cheape, Hugh "'Charms against Witchcraft': Magic and Mischief in Museum Collections" , in Lauren Martin, Julian Goodare and Miller., Joyce edd. Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2008) More details ... |
| Cowan, Edward J. "The darker vision of the Scottish Renaissance: the Devil and Francis Stewart" , in Cowan, Ian B. and Shaw., Duncan edd. The Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland. (Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1983) More details ... |
| Cowan, Edward J.Lizanne, Henderson "The Last of the Witches? The Survival of Scottish Witch Belief" , in Goodare, J. ed. The Scottish Witch-hunt in Context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ... |
| Davies, Owen "A Comparative Perspective on Scottish Cunning-folk and Charmers" , in Lauren Martin, Julian Goodare, and Miller., Joyce edd. Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland. (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2008) More details ... |
| Dye, Sierra "To Converse with the Devil? Speech, Sexuality, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland" , in International Review of Scottish Studies, vol.37 (2012) More details ... |
| Gaskill, Malcolm, in Hellis Nell: Last of Britain's Witches (Fourth Estate, London, 2002) More details ... |
| Goodare, Julian "The Aberdeenshire witchcraft panic of 1597" , in Northern Scotland, vol.21 (2001) More details ... |
| Goodare, Julian "Women and the witch-hunt in Scotland" , in Social History, vol.23 (1998) More details ... |
| Goodare, Julian "Witch-hunting and the Scottish state" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish witch-hunt in context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ... |
| Goodare, Julian "The Scottish witchcraft act" , in Church History, vol.74 (2005) More details ... |
| Goodare, Julian "The framework for Scottish witch-hunting in the 1590s" , in Scottish Historical Review, vol.81 (2002) More details ... |
| Goodare, Julian "Men and the witch-hunt in Scotland" , in Rowlands, Alison ed. Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2009) More details ... |
| Goodare, Julian "John Knox on demonology and witchcraft" , in Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte, vol.96 (2005) More details ... |
| Goodare, Julian "The Scottish witchcraft panic of 1597" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ... |
| Goodare, Julian, ed., in The Scottish Witch-hunt in Context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ... |
| Goodare, Julian, Lauren MartinJoyce, Miller eds, in Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland. (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2008) More details ... |
| Hall, Alaric "'Getting shot of elves: healing, witchcraft and fairies in Scottish witchcraft trials" , in Folklore, vol.116 (2005) More details ... |
| Harris, Richard L. "Janet Douglas and the Witches of Pollock: The Background of Scepticism in Scotland in the 1670s" , in McKenna., Stephen R. ed. Selected Essays on Scottish Language and Literature. (Edwin Mellen, Lewiston, 1992) More details ... |
| Harrison, G.B. ed., in Newes from Scotland or the Damnable LIfe of Dr. Fian a notable sorceror who was burned at Edenborough in Ianuarie last 1591 (1591) More details ... |
| Henderson, LizanneEdward J., Cowan, in Scottish Fairy Belief: A History. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2001) More details ... |
| Henderson, Lizanne "The Survival of Witchcraft Prosecutions and Witch Belief in South-West Scotland" , in Scottish Historical Review, vol.85:1 (2006) More details ... |
| Henderson, Lizanne "'Detestable Slaves of the Devil': Changing Ideas about Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Scotland" , in Cowan, E.J. and Henderson, Lizanne edd. A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland 1000-1600 (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2011) More details ... |
| Hunter, Michael "The discovery of second sight in late 17th-century Scotland" , in History Today, vol.51:6 June (2001) More details ... |
| Hunter, Michael ed., in The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland. (Woodbridge, 2001) More details ... |
| Hutchison, James "A sermon on witchcraft in 1697" , in Neilson. , G. ed. Scottish Historical Review, vol.7 (1910) More details ... |
| Hutton, Ronald "The global context of the Scottish witch-hunt" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish witch-hunt in context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ... |
| Larner, C, in Witchcraft and Religion: the Politics of Popular Belief. (Oxford, 1984) More details ... |
| Larner, C. "Witch Beliefs and witch-hunting in England and Scotland" , in History Today , vol.31 (1981) More details ... |
| Larner, C.J., in Continental Influences on Scottish Demonology 1560-1700 (PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1962) More details ... |
| Larner, Christina "Two Late Scottish Witchcraft Tracts: 'Witchcraft Proven' and 'The Tryal of Witchcraft'" , in Anglo., S. ed. The Damned Art (London, 1977) More details ... |
| Larner, Christina, in Enemies of God: the Witch-hunt in Scotland. (Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1981) More details ... |
| Larner, Christina "James VI and I and Witchcraft." , in Smith., A. G. R. ed. The Reign of James VI and I (London, 1973) More details ... |
| Larner, Christina et al. eds., in A Sourcebook of Scottish Witchcraft. (Glasgow, 1977) More details ... |
| Levack, Brian "The Prosecution of Sexual Crimes in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland" , in Scottish Historical Review, vol.89:2 (2010) More details ... |
| Levack, Brian, in Witch-hunting in Scotland. Law, Politics and Religion. (Routledge, New York, 2008) More details ... |
| Levack, Brian P. "The decline and end of Scottish witch-hunting" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish witch-hunt in context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ... |
| Levack, Brian P. "The great Scottish witch-hunt of 1661-1662" , in Journal of British Studies, vol.20 (1980) More details ... |
| Levack, Brian P. ed., in Witchcraft in Scotland. (Garland, London, 1992) More details ... |
| Macdonald, S.W. "The Bargarran witchcraft trial: a psychiatric assessment" , in Scottish Medical Journal , vol.41 (1996) More details ... |
| MacDonald, S.W. "The witch doctors of Scotland" , in Scottish Medical Journal, vol.43 (1998) More details ... |
| MacDonald, S.W. "The Devil's Mark and the Witch-prickers of Scotland" , in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, vol.90 (1997) More details ... |
| Macdonald, Stuart "In search of the Devil in Fife witchcraft cases, 1560-1705" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish witch-hunt in context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ... |
| Macdonald, Stuart "Torture and the Scottish Witch-hunt: a Re-examination" , in Scottish Tradition, vol.27 (2002) More details ... |
| Macdonald, Stuart, in The Witches of Fife: Witch-hunting in a Scottish Shire, 1560-1710. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2002) More details ... |
| Marshall, Rosalind Kay "Take of dragon's blood two drachms: the treatment of pregnancy and miscarriage in seventeenth-century Scotland" , in The Nursing Mirror, vol.15 (1982) More details ... |
| Martin, Lauren "Witchcraft and the Family: what can witchcraft documents tell us about early modern Scottish family life?" , in Scottish Tradition, vol.27 (2002) More details ... |
| Martin, Lauren "The Devil and the domestic: witchcraft, quarrels and women's work in Scotland" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish Witch-hunt in Context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ... |
| Martin, Lauren, in The Devil and the Domestic: Witchcraft, Women's Work and Marriage in Early Modern Scotland (PhD, New School University (New York), 2004) More details ... |
| Maxwell-Stuart, Peter, in Abundance of Witches: The Great Scottish Witch-hunt. (Stroud, 2005) More details ... |
| Maxwell-Stuart, Peter "Witchcraft and magic in eighteenth-century Scotland" , in Davies, Owen and de Blecourt., Willem edd. Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe. (Manchester, 2004) More details ... |
| Maxwell-Stuart, Peter G., in Satan's Conspiracy. Magic and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2001) More details ... |
| Maxwell-Stuart, Peter G. "The fear of the king is death: James VI and the witches of East Lothian" , in Naphy, W. G. and Roberts., P. edd. Fear in Early Modern Society. (Manchester, 1997) More details ... |
| McDonald, Stuart W.A. Thom, A. Thom and "The Bargarran witch trial: a psychiatric reassessment" , in Scottish Medical Journal, vol.41 (1996) More details ... |
| McLachlan, HughKim, Swales "The Bewitchment of Christian Shaw: A Reassessment of the Famous Paisley Witchcraft Case of 1697" , in Brown, Yvonne Galloway and Ferguson., Rona edd. Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland Since 1400. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2002) More details ... |
| McLachlan, Hugh "The Bargarran Witchcraft Scare of the 1690s" , in History Scotland, vol.7:5 More details ... |
| McLachlan, Hugh ed., in The Kirk, Satan and Salem: A History of the Witches of Renfrewshire. (Glasgow, 2006) More details ... |
| Michael, WasserLouise, Yeoman eds "The trial of Geillis Johnstone for witchcraft, 1614" , in Scottish History Society Miscellany, vol.13 (2004) More details ... |
| Miller, Joyce, in Cantrips and Carlins: Magic, Medicine and Society in the Presbyteries of Haddington and Stirling, 1603-88 (PhD thesis, University of Stirling, 1999) More details ... |
| Miller, Joyce "Devices and directions: folk healing aspects of witchcraft practice in seventeenth-century Scotland" , in Goodare. , Julian ed. The Scottish witch-hunt in context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ... |
| Moir, Scott "The Crucible: Witchcraft and the Experience of Family in Early Modern Scotland" , in Ewan, Elizabeth and Nugent, Janay edd. Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008) More details ... |
| Neilson, G. "A Sermon on Witchcraft in 1692" , in Levack., B.P. ed. Witchcraft in Scotland. (Garland, New York and London, 1992) More details ... |
| Normand, LawrenceGareth, Roberts eds, in Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland. James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches (Exeter University Press, Exeter, 2000) More details ... |
| Purkiss, Diane "Losing Babies, Losing Stories: Attending to Women\'s Confessions in Scottish Witch-trials" , in Mikesell, M. and Seeff., A. edd. Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women. (Univesity of Delaware Press, Newark, 2003) More details ... |
| Purkiss, Diane "Sounds of silence: fairies and incest in Scottish witchcraft stories" , in Clark. , S. ed. Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture (London, 2001) More details ... |
| Robertson, David M., in Goodnight, My Servants All: the Sourcebook of East Lothian Witchcraft (Grimsay Press, 2007) More details ... |
| Sharpe, James "Witch-hunting and witch historiography: some Anglo-Scottish comparisons" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish witch-hunt in context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ... |
| Simpson, Jacqueline, in Folklore, vol.106 (1995) More details ... |
| Sinclair, George, in Satan's Invisible World Discovered: A Choice Collection of Relations anent Devils, Spirits, Witches and Apparitions (Edinburgh, 1685) More details ... |
| Stafford, Helen "Notes on Scottish witchcraft cases, 1590-1591" , in Downes. , N. ed. Essays in Honour of Conyers Read. (London?, 1953) More details ... |
| Stevenson, David "Major Weir: a justified sinner?" , in Scottish Studies, vol.16 (1972) More details ... |
| Truckell, A.E. "Unpublished Witchcraft Trials B Part 2" , in D. Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, vol.52 (1977) More details ... |
| Wasser, Michael "The western witch-hunt of 1697-1700: the last major witch-hunt in Scotland" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish witch-hunt in context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ... |
| Wasser, Michael "The Privy Council and the Witches: The Curtailment of Witchcraft Prosecutions in Scotland 1597-1628" , in Scottish Historical Review, vol.81/2 More details ... |
| Webster, D. ed, in A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight. (Edinburgh, 1820) More details ... |
| Wilby, Emma, in The Visions of Isobel Gowdie. Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland (Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 2010) More details ... |
| Wilby, Emma, in Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic. (Brighton, 2005) More details ... |
| Wilby, Emma "The witch's familiar and the fairy in early modern England and Scotland" , in Folklore, vol.111 (2000) More details ... |
| Wormald, J. "The Witches, the Devil and the king" , in Brotherstone, T. and Ditchburn., D. edd. Freedom and Authority: Scotland c.1050-c.1650. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2000) More details ... |
| Yeoman, Louise "Hunting the rich witch in Scotland: high-status witchcraft suspects and their persecutors, 1590-1650" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish Witch-hunt in Context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ... |
| Yeoman, Louise A. "The Devil as doctor: witchcraft, Wodrow, and the wider world" , in Scottish Archives, vol.1 (1995) More details ... |
| Yeoman, Louise A. ed "Witchcraft commissions from the register of commissions of the privy council of Scotland, 1630-1642" , in Scottish History Society Miscellany, vol.13 (2004) More details ... |
| Young, John R. "The Scottish parliament and witch-hunting in Scotland under the covenanters" , in Parliaments, Estates and Representation, vol.26 (2006) More details ... |