This book brings together twelve studies that collectively provide an overview of the main issues of live interest in Scottish witchcraft. 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.

Introduction; Julian Goodare 1. Scotland's First Witch-Hunt: The Eastern Witch-Hunt of 1568-1569; Michael Wasser 2. The Countess of Angus's Escape from the North Berwick Witch-Hunt; Victoria Carr 3. Exporting the Devil across the North Sea: John Cunningham and the Finnmark Witch-Hunt; Liv Helene Willumsen 4. The Witch, the Household and the Community: Isobel Young in East Barns, 1580-1629; Lauren Martin 5. Reputation and Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century Dalkeith; Anna Cordey 6. Witch-Hunting in Scotland, 1649-1650; Paula Hughes 7. Outside In or Inside Out: Sleep Paralysis and Scottish Witchcraft; Margaret Dudley & Julian Goodare 8. 'We Mey Shoot Them Dead at Our Pleasur': Isobel Gowdie, Elf-Arrows and Dark Shamanism; Emma Wilby 9. Flying Witches in Scotland; Julian Goodare 10. The Urban Geography of Witch-Hunting in Scotland; Alistair Henderson 11. Executing Scottish Witches; Laura Paterson 12. Decline and Survival in Scottish Witch-Hunting, 1701-1727; Alexandra Hill Bibliography of Scottish Witchcraft; Julian Goodare Index