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PUBLIC DOMAINLetters on Demonology and Witchcraft
- Original publication
- 1830
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 237
- File size
- 634.6 KB
Scott enters the archive of witches, apparitions and demon lore, tracing how fear hardened into testimony, prosecution and a supernatural inheritance that refused to disappear.
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Published in 1830, Walter Scott’s celebrated letters survey witchcraft, ghosts, second sight and demonic belief across European history. Written with antiquarian curiosity and rational distance, the work follows legends from scripture and medieval chronicles into trials, frauds and popular memory. Scott treats the supernatural as a cultural force capable of shaping courts and communities. Its pages preserve the cold afterimage of centuries in which rumour could acquire a body and accusation could become law.
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Early nineteenth-century Britain
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