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Visions of Isobel Gowdie : magic, shamanism & witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland

Wilby, Emma2009
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Among historians, the confessions of Isobel Gowdie are celebrated for providing an insight into the way fairy beliefs and witch beliefs interacted in the early modern mind; more controversially, they are also cited as evidence for the existence of Shamanistic visionary traditions, of pre-Christian origin, in Scotland in this period.
Main title:
Visions of Isobel Gowdie : magic, shamanism & witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland / by Emma Wilby.
Author:
Wilby, Emma
Imprint:
Brighton : Sussex Academic, 2009.
Collation:
320 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9781845191801 (pbk)1845191803 (pbk)9781845191795 (hbk)184519179X (hbk)
Dewey class:
133.4'3'09411'09032133.43092133.43
Local class:
133.43
Language:
English
Subject:
Gowdie, Isobel, d. 1662?Witchcraft -- Scotland -- History -- 17th centuryShamanism -- Scotland -- History -- 17th centuryMagic -- Scotland -- History -- 17th centuryTrials (Witchcraft) -- Scotland -- History -- 17th century
BRN:
1602409
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