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Letters On Demonology and Witchcraft: Classic Stories of Ghosts, fairies, witches, and astrologers
Letters On Demonology and Witchcraft Classic Stories of Ghosts fairies witches and astrologers Author:Sir Walter Scott The notion that witchcraft faded awy with the onset of the scientific revolution is entirely mistaken. Sir Walter Scott's Letters were written for his son-in-law and biographer J.G. Lockhart, stands in the grand tradition of writing on witchcraft and suggests that magic was alive and well in nineteenth century scotland, as contemporary newspaper... more » reports confirm. Carefully researched, alive with stories from his own and contemporaries' experience, and ranging in subject matter from ghosts and fairies to witches and astrologers, the 'Letters' inform, enliven, and entertain, as they try to wed nineteenth-century scepticism with evidence that contridicts it.« less