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The Last Witch in Edinburgh

Author : Marielle Thompson
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 1496742656
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book The Last Witch in Edinburgh written by Marielle Thompson and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Sarah Penner’s The Lost Apothecary and Alix E. Harrow’s The Once and Future Witches, this lush, atmospheric novel from the author of Where Ivy Dares to Grow blends witchcraft, queer love, a vibrant Edinburgh setting, and Scottish folklore for a propulsive and emotional story exploring what it means to resist the patriarchy and find your voice. “A lyrical and hauntingly beautiful new voice.” —Hester Fox, Author of A Lullaby for Witches In an alternate Edinburgh of 1824, every woman lives in fear that she will be the next one hanged for witchcraft. All it takes is invoking the anger, or the desire, of the wrong person. Nellie Duncan, beautiful and unwed, keeps to herself until she encounters the Rae Women’s Apothecary. There, fiery Jean Rae and the other women provide cures and teach others that they too can aid the winter deity, the Cailleach, embracing her characteristic independence, agency, and craft, in turn becoming witches themselves. Nellie finds a place and a purpose at the shop, and a blossoming romance with Jean, as she learns about nature-based craft and a witch’s ability to return to life after death. But the Cailleach has an ancient enemy intent on stripping the power of the deity and all her witches, leaving a wake of patriarchal violence and destruction. When heart-breaking disaster strikes, Nellie flees and spends the next two centuries hiding from the world—until love gives her the courage and the motivation to come back. Nellie’s past is waiting for her there, and hanging witches is no longer the only means of oppression. But this time, Nellie refuses to run—either from her foes, or from her resolve to awaken others to the unimaginable power that can come with fighting the patriarchy in its many forms—and finding one’s own magical inner-strength.

The Last Witch

Author : Rona Munro
Publisher : NHB Modern Plays
ISBN 13 : 9781848420724
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Last Witch written by Rona Munro and published by NHB Modern Plays. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, poetic and unsettling supernatural thriller.-Scotsman

The Last Witch of Scotland

Author : Philip Paris
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785304518
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Last Witch of Scotland written by Philip Paris and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Compelling, evocative, heart-wrenching and beautifully written. Highly recommended.' - Fiona Valpy, author of The Storyteller of Casablanca Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire that kills her father, Aila and her mother, Janet, move to the remote parish of Loth, north-west of Inverness. Blending in does not come easily to the women: Aila was badly burned in the fire and left with visible injuries, while her mother struggles to maintain her grip on reality. When a temporary minister is appointed in the area, rather than welcome the two women, he develops a strange curiosity for them that sets them even further apart from the community. Then arrives a motley troupe of travelling entertainers from Edinburgh, led by the charismatic but mysterious Jack. It is just the distraction Janet, and particularly Aila, needs: for the first time in a long while, their lives are filling with joy and friendship, and a kind of hope Aila hasn't known since her father's death. But in this small community, faith is more powerful than truth, and whispers more dangerous even than fire. Haunting and deeply moving, The Last Witch of Scotland is a story of love, loyalty and sacrifice, inspired by the true story of the last person to be executed for witchcraft in Britain. Perfect for fans of Outlander, The Mercies and The Witches of Vardo, or for anyone with an interest in the history of witchcraft, late renaissance Scotland and Highland history.

Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland

Author : Lawrence Normand
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802079300
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland written by Lawrence Normand and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge and demonologist. It provides hitherto unpublished and inaccessible material from the legal documentation of the trials in a way that makes the material fully comprehensible, as well as full texts of the pamphlet News from Scotland and James' Demonology, all in a readable, modernised, scholarly form. Full introductory sections and supporting notes provide information about the contexts needed to understand the texts: court politics, social history and culture, religious changes, law and the workings of the court, and the history of witchcraft prosecutions in Scotland before 1590. The book also brings to bear on this material current scholarship on the history of European witchcraft.

Tam O'Shanter

Author : Robert Burns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tam O'Shanter written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Borders Witch Hunt

Author : Mary W. Craig
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910022268
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Borders Witch Hunt written by Mary W. Craig and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years between 1600 and 1700 were a period of war, famine, plague and religious upheaval in Scotland.A time when ordinary women, and men, of the Scottish Borders who fell under the suspicion of the Kirk would face interrogation and torture.A time when fear of Auld Nick turned the world upside down and the cry of witch would almost always lead to the rope and the flame.Mary Craig explores this tremulous period of Scottish history and examines the causes and effects of the 17th century witchcraft trials and executions in the Scottish Borders.

Witches of the North

Author : Liv Helene Willumsen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004252924
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Witches of the North written by Liv Helene Willumsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witches of the North. Scotland and Finnmark is a comparative study of witchcraft persecution in Scotland and Finnmark, Norway. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative analyses based mainly on legal documents shed light on the witch-hunts in the two regions during the seventeenth century. Statistical analyses give information about tendencies in the source material in total. The qualitative chapters contain close-readings of trial documents, wherein the various voices heard during a trial are analysed: the voice of the scribe, the voice of the law, the voice of the accused person and the voices of the witnesses. The analyses combined provide a broad view of the historical phenomenon in question as well as in-depth studies of individual witchcraft cases.

The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context

Author : Julian Goodare
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719060243
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context written by Julian Goodare and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-16th century to the early 18th. It particularly emphasizes the later stages, since scholars are now as keen to explain why witch-hunting declined as why it occurred. There are studies of particular witchcraft panics, including a reassessment of the role of King James VI. The book thus covers a wide range of topics concerned with Scottish witch-hunting - and also places it in the context of other topics: gender relations, folklore, magic and healing, and moral regulation by church and state.

Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters

Author : J. Goodare
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137355948
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters written by J. Goodare and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together twelve studies that collectively provide an overview of the main issues of live interest in Scottish witchcraft. As well as fresh studies of the well-established topic of witch-hunting, the book also launches an exploration of some of the more esoteric aspects of magical belief and practice.

Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe

Author : A. Rowlands
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230248373
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe written by A. Rowlands and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men – as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed – are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France.

Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment

Author : Lizanne Henderson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137313242
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment written by Lizanne Henderson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment represents the first in-depth investigation of Scottish witchcraft and witch belief post-1662, the period of supposed decline of such beliefs, an age which has been referred to as the 'long eighteenth century', coinciding with the Scottish Enlightenment. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were undoubtedly a period of transition and redefinition of what constituted the supernatural, at the interface between folk belief and the philosophies of the learned. For the latter the eradication of such beliefs equated with progress and civilization but for others, such as the devout, witch belief was a matter of faith, such that fear and dread of witches and their craft lasted well beyond the era of the major witch-hunts. This study seeks to illuminate the distinctiveness of the Scottish experience, to assess the impact of enlightenment thought upon witch belief, and to understand how these beliefs operated across all levels of Scottish society.

The Last Witch Craze

Author : Tony McAleavy
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445698439
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Last Witch Craze written by Tony McAleavy and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of man of letters John Aubrey’s investigation into the witch craze in 17th century England and the remarkable witch trials in Wiltshire. John Aubrey and other leading figures in the Royal Society promoted belief in witchcraft. Aubrey also had a dark secret. He personally practised a form of black witchcraft.

The Last Witch of Scotland

Author : Philip Paris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785304507
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Last Witch of Scotland written by Philip Paris and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Witch

Author : Rona Munro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Last Witch written by Rona Munro and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rona Munro's 'The Last Witch' tells the story of the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in the British Isles. It is based on the historical account of Janet Horne, the alleged witch of Dornoch in the Scottish Highlands, who was executed in 1727.

Enemies of God

Author : Christina Larner
Publisher : John Donald Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780859765183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Enemies of God written by Christina Larner and published by John Donald Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years the European witch craze of the 16th and 17th centuries was considered a subject of almost bad taste to study. Then came World War II and a genocide which was the greatest convulsion of evil the world had ever seen. Scholars realized that the witch cult was still with us.

Witchcraft in Scotland

Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815310297
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft in Scotland written by Brian P. Levack and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials

Author : Liv Helene Willumsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000550567
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials written by Liv Helene Willumsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women’s voices in these trials in eight countries around the North Sea: Spanish Netherlands, Northern Germany, Denmark, Scotland, England, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. From each country, three trials are chosen for close reading of courtroom discourse and the narratological approach enables various individuals to speak. Throughout the study, a choir of 24 voices of accused women are heard which reveal valuable insight into the field of mentalities and display both the individual experience of witchcraft accusation and the development of the trial. Particular attention is drawn to the accused women’s confessions, which are interpreted as enforced narratives. The analyses of individual trials are also contextualized nationally and internationally by a frame of historical elements, and a systematic comparison between the countries shows strong similarities regarding the impact of specific ideas about witchcraft, use of pressure and torture, the turning point of the trial, and the verdict and sentence. This volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of witchcraft, witchcraft trials, transnationality, cultural exchanges, and gender in early modern Northern Europe.