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Getting shot of elves: healing, witchcraft and fairies in the Scottish witchcraft trials
Get PDFThis paper re-examines the evidence of the Scottish witchcraft trials for beliefs associated by scholars with "elf-shot." Some supposed evidence for elf-shot is dismissed, but other material illuminates the interplay between illness, healing and fairy-lore in early modern Scotland, and the relationship of these beliefs to witchcraft itself
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No full textSir John Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Volume VI: 1483–1558. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. cl + 964. $200 (ISBN: 0-19-825817-8).
No full textJohn Robertson, editor. A Union For Empire: Political Thought and the British Union of 1707. New York: Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press. 1995. Pp. xx, 368. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-43113-1.
No full textJames Sharpe, ed. English Witchcraft 1560–1736. 6 vols. London: Pickering and Chatto Publishers. 2003. Pp. 2, 896. $740.00. ISBN 1-85196-735-4.
No full textPaul H. Scott. Andrew Fletcher and the Treaty of Union. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers. Ltd.1992. Pp. ix, 274. £25.00. - Keith M. Brown. Kingdom or Province?: Scotland and the Regal Union, 1603–1715. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1992. Pp. xi, 226. $39.95.
No full textR. C. Richardson and G. M. Ridden, editors. Freedom and the English Revolution: Essays in History and Literature. Wolfeboro, N.H.: Manchester University Press. 1986. Pp. 182 $30.00.
No full textBeing Bewitched: A True Tale of Madness, Witchcraft, and Property Development Gone Wrong by Kirsten C. Uszkalo
No full textConrad Russell. Parliaments and English Politics, 1621-1629. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 1979. Pp. 453. $36.00.
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