Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781718888128)

The notion that witchcraft faded away with the onset of the scientific revolution is entirely mistaken. Sir Walter Scott wrote this volume for his son-in-law & biographer J. G. Lockhart. It stands in the grand tradition of writing on witchcraft & suggests that magic was alive & well in 19th-century Scotland, as contemporary newspaper reports confirm. Carefully researched, alive with stories drawn from his own & contemporaries' experience, & ranging in subject matter from ghosts & fairies to witches & astrologers, the Letters' inform, enliven, & entertain as they try to wed 19th-century skepticism with evidence which contradicts it. Letters has been a major source of reference ever since it was published.

Author: Walter Scott
ISBN-10: 1718888120
ISBN-13: 9781718888128
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2018
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.53d