The History of Paisley
Author : John Parkhill
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Paisley (Scotland)
ISBN :
A History of the Witches of Renfrewshire
Author : John Millar
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 1809
Category : Trials (Witchcraft)
ISBN :
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Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment
Author : Lizanne Henderson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1137313242
Book Description
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 Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland
Author : Julian Goodare
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526134424
Book Description
This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.
Satans Invisible World Discovered
Author : George Sinclair
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Demonology
ISBN :
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The History of Kilmarnock
Author : Archibald M'Kay
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Kilmarnock (Scotland)
ISBN :
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Strange Histories
Author : Darren Oldridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134442157
Book Description
Strange Histories presents a serious account of some of the most extraordinary occurrences of European and North American history and explains how they made sense to people living at the time. Using case studies from the Middle Ages and the early modern period, this book provides fascinating insights into the world-view of a vanished age and shows how such occurences fitted in quite naturally with the "common sense" of the time. Explanations of these phenomena, riveting and ultimately rational, encourage further reflection on what shapes our beliefs today. What made reasonable, educated men and women behave in ways that seem utterly nonsensical to us today? This question and many more are answered in this fascinating book.
Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions
Author : Gábor Klaniczay
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2008-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 6155211507
Book Description
This third, concluding volume of the series publishes 14 studies and the transcription of a round-table discussion on Carlo Ginzburg's Ecstasies. The themes of the previous two volumes, Communicating with the Spirits, and Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology, are further expanded here both as regards their interdisciplinary approach and the wide range of regional comparisons. While the emphasis of the second volume was on current popular belief and folklore as seen in the context of the historical sources on demonology, this volume approaches its subject from the point of view of historical anthropology. The greatest recent advances of witchcraft research occurred recently in two fields: (1) deciphering the variety of myths and the complexity of historical processes which lead to the formation of the witches' Sabbath, (2) the micro-historical analysis of the social, religious, legal and cultural milieu where witchcraft accusations and persecutions developed. These two themes are completed by some further insights into the folklore of the concerned regions which still carries the traces of the traumatic historical memories of witchcraft persecutions.
Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning the Orkney & Shetland Islands
Author : George Fraser Black
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Ballads, Scots
ISBN :
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Scottish Fairy Belief
Author : Lizanne Henderson
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781862321908
Book Description
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.
