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1 online resource (177 pages). |
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James I anthology |
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James I anthology.
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BiblioBoard Core module.
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Several of the tracts have special title-page or half-title. |
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Original document: Book. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Contents |
An original essay on witchcraft.--News from Scotland: declaring the damnable life of Doctor Fian ...--Another account ... from Sir James Melvil's Memoirs.--Extracts from King James' Daemonologie ...--An answer of a letter from a gentleman in Fife to a nobleman, containing a brief account of the ... treatment these poor women accused of witchcraft met with from the baillies of Pittenweem and others ...--A copy of the indictment of the witches at Borrowstouness ...--Trial of Isobel Elliot, and nine other women ... 1678--The confessions of Helen Taylor ... and Menie Halyburton ... accused of witchcraft, 1649 ...--The trial of William Coke and Alison Dick, for witchcraft.--[Account of the expense of burning Margaret Denham]--Minutes and proceedings of the session of Torryburn ... concerning witchcraft ...--A brief discourse concerning the second sight .... |
| Summary |
Witchcraft and the persecution of witches was a popular topic during the reign of James I of England, who himself took great interest in the identification and persecution of so-called witches. This book contains an essay that King James wrote entitled "Daemonologie," which begins on page 42 of the book and was first published in 1597. |
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Witchcraft -- Scotland -- History -- Sources.
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Witchcraft -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800.
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Trials (Witchcraft) -- Scotland -- History -- Sources.
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Trials (Witchcraft) -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800.
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