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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq. (1830) was a study of witchcraft and the supernatural by Sir Walter Scott. A lifelong student of folklore, Scott was able to draw on a wide-ranging collection of primary and secondary sources. His book found many readers throughout the 19th century, and exercised a significant influence in promoting the Victorian vogue for Gothic and ghostly fiction. Though on first publication it met with mixed reviews, it is now recognised as a pioneering work of scientific anthropology, treating of its subject in an acute and analytical way which prefigures later scholarship on the subject, as well as presenting a highly readable collection of supernatural anecdotes.

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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq. (1830) was a study of witchcraft and the supernatural by Sir Walter Scott. A lifelong...

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Banshee

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Margaret Barclay

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was written about with horror (Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, 1830) by the romantic novelist Sir Walter Scott, and in the 21st century, a campaign...

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Salem witch trials

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Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. Crown Publishers Inc., 1959. ISBN 0-600-01183-6 Robinson, Enders A. Salem Witchcraft and Hawthorne's House...

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Walter Scott

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instalment from the series, Tales of a Grandfather 1830: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1831: Tales of a Grandfather; Being Stories Taken from the...

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European witchcraft

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European witchcraft is a multifaceted historical and cultural phenomenon that unfolded over centuries, leaving a mark on the continent's social, religious...

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Alderley Edge

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(1830). Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft – Letter IV. London: John Murry. Lewis, Matthew (1808). Romantic Tales. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme...

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Religion and Ethics Part 3. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 0-7661-3671-X. Scott, Walter (1845). "Letter IV", Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. New York:...

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Malleus Maleficarum

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of Witchcraft and Demonology. Peter Nevill. Thomas, Keith (1971). Religion and the Decline of Magic – Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth...

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John Lambe

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Isaac D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature and Sir Walter Scott's Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. Lambe is mentioned in Neal Stephenson's first...

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Thomas the Rhymer

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"Huntley Bank, a place on the descent of the Eildon Hills," Scott, Walter (1887). Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. G. Routledge and sons. p. 112. She...

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Matthew Hopkins

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Hope (1959), The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology, Peter Nevill Russell, Jeffrey B (1981), A History of Witchcraft, Thames & Hudson, ISBN 978-1-55553-165-2...

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Count Robert of Paris

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while working on Tales of a Grandfather and Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. The title Robert of Paris was settled by 5 September, and composition...

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Walter Scott Prize

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the largest literary awards in the UK. The award was created by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, whose ancestors were closely linked to Scottish author...

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Nicnevin

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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (1831), ch, 4 A Glossary of North Country Words, with Their Etymology, and Affinity to Other Languages: And Occasional...

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Montague Summers

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personality and interests, Summers became a well known figure in London society as a result of the publication of his History of Witchcraft and Demonology in 1926...

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Barbara Napier

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p. 679. Lawrence Normand & Gareth Roberts, Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: James VI's Demonology and the North (Exeter, 2000), p. 245: Robert Pitcairn...

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Heinrich Kramer

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was a German churchman and inquisitor. With his widely distributed book Malleus Maleficarum (1487), which describes witchcraft and endorses detailed processes...

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Bessie Dunlop of Lynn

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Counties of Ayr and Wigton. Vol. III–Cunninghame. Edinburgh: J. Stillie. Scott, Sir Walter (2001). Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. The Folklore Society...

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Necromancy

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occasionally also used in a more general sense to refer to black magic or witchcraft as a whole. The word necromancy is adapted from Late Latin necromantia:...

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