J. Goodare - Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters

Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic

Series Editors: Jonathan Barry, Willem de Blcourt and Owen Davies

Titles include:

Edward Bever

THE REALITIES OF WITCHCRAFT AND POPULAR MAGIC IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Culture, Cognition and Everyday Life

Alison Butler

VICTORIAN OCCULTISM AND THE MAKING OF MODERN MAGIC

Invoking Tradition

Julian Goodare (editor)

SCOTTISH WITCHES AND WITCH-HUNTERS

Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin and Joyce Miller (editors)

WITCHCRAFT AND BELIEF IN EARLY MODERN SCOTLAND

Jonathan Roper (editor)

CHARMS, CHARMERS AND CHARMING

Alison Rowlands (editor)

WITCHCRAFT AND MASCULINITIES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Rolf Schulte

MAN AS WITCH

Male Witches in Central Europe

Laura Stokes

DEMONS OF URBAN REFORM

Early European Witch Trials and Criminal Justice, 14301530

Forthcoming:

Johannes Dillinger

MAGICAL TREASURE HUNTING IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA

A History

Soili-Maria Olli

TALKING TO DEVILS AND ANGELS IN SCANDINAVIA, 15001800

Robert Ziegler

SATANISM, MAGIC AND MYSTICISM IN FIN-DE-SICLE FRANCE

Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic

Series Standing Order ISBN 9781403995667 Hardback 9781403995674 Paperback

(outside North America only)

You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above.

Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England

Also by Julian Goodare

SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTLAND: Essays in Honour of Michael Lynch (co-edited with Alasdair A. MacDonald)

WITCHCRAFT AND BELIEF IN EARLY MODERN SCOTLAND (co-edited with Lauren Martin and Joyce Miller)

THE GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND, 15601625

THE SCOTTISH WITCH-HUNT IN CONTEXT (editor)

THE REIGN OF JAMES VI (co-edited with Michael Lynch)

STATE AND SOCIETY IN EARLY MODERN SCOTLAND

Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters

Edited by

Julian Goodare

Reader in History, University of Edinburgh, UK

Editorial matter, selection, introduction and

Chapter 9 Julian Goodare 2013

Individual chapters Respective authors 2013

All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.

No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 610 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS.

Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published 2013 by

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS.

Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martins Press LLC,

175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world.

Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.

ISBN 9781137355935

This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

Maps, Figures and Tables

Maps

Figures

Tables

Preface and Acknowledgements

Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters is a collection of essays that showcases some of the latest research on Scottish witchcraft. It has been planned to range over the whole topic: from beginning to end of the period of witch-hunting; from individual case studies to international connections; from the perspective of central government to the perspective of local communities. 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.

This book is to some extent a follow-up to two previous books: Julian Goodare (ed.), The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002) and Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin and Joyce Miller (eds.), Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). The latter book, indeed, was the first volume in the present series, Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Three of the contributors to the present book also contributed to these earlier collections, though on very different subjects. For seven of the other contributors, their chapter will be their first publication.

I am particularly grateful to Professor Brian P. Levack for friendship, advice and encouragement. Dr Joyce Miller and Dr Louise Yeoman have provided regular inspiration. Karen Howie helped me with the map. The series editors, Professor Jonathan Barry, Dr Willem de Blcourt and Professor Owen Davies, have been consistently supportive, as have the publishers.

Julian Goodare

April 2013

Abbreviations