The Last Witch in Edinburgh

The Last Witch in Edinburgh
Title The Last Witch in Edinburgh PDF eBook
Author Marielle Thompson
Publisher Kensington Books
Pages 404
Release 2024-08-20
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1496742656

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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

The Last Witch
Title The Last Witch PDF eBook
Author Rona Munro
Publisher NHB Modern Plays
Pages 0
Release 2009
Genre DRAMA
ISBN 9781848420724

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A powerful, poetic and unsettling supernatural thriller.-Scotsman

Borders Witch Hunt

Borders Witch Hunt
Title Borders Witch Hunt PDF eBook
Author Mary W. Craig
Publisher Luath Press Ltd
Pages 239
Release 2020-11-06
Genre History
ISBN 1910022268

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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.

Tam O'Shanter

Tam O'Shanter
Title Tam O'Shanter PDF eBook
Author Robert Burns
Publisher DigiCat
Pages 25
Release 2022-09-16
Genre Poetry
ISBN

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tam O'Shanter" by Robert Burns. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context

The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context
Title The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context PDF eBook
Author Julian Goodare
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 244
Release 2002-09-21
Genre History
ISBN 9780719060243

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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

Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters
Title Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters PDF eBook
Author J. Goodare
Publisher Springer
Pages 245
Release 2013-10-31
Genre History
ISBN 1137355948

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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 in Early Modern Scotland

Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland
Title Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland PDF eBook
Author Lawrence Normand
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Pages 468
Release 2022-03-23
Genre History
ISBN 1802079300

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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.