The Witches of Fife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Witches of Fife write by Stuart MacDonald. This book was released on 2014-08-01. The Witches of Fife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reality of what happened the night that Janet Cornfoot was lynched at Pittenweem is hard to grasp as one sits by the harbour watching the fishing boats unload their catch and the pleasure boats rising with the tide. How could people do this to an old woman? Why was no-one ever brought to justice? And why would anyone defend such a lynching? The task of the historian is to try to make events in the past come alive and seem less strange. The details of the witch-hunt are fascinating. Some of the anecdotes are strange. The modern reader finds it hard to imagine illness being blamed on the malevolence of a beggar woman denied charity, or the economic failure of a sea voyage being attributed to the village hag, not bad weather. Witch-hunting was related to ideas, values, attitudes and political events. It was a complicated process, involving religious and civil authorities, village tensions and the fears of the elite. The witch-hunt in Scotland also took place at a time when one of the main agendas was the creation of a righteous or godly society. As a result, religious authorities had control over aspects of people's lives which seem as strange to us today as beliefs about magic or witchcraft. It was not accidental that the witch-hunt in Scotland, and specifically in Fife, should have happened at this time. This book tells the story of what occurred over a period of a century and a half, and offers some explanation as to why it occurred.
The Witch of Fife
The Witch of Fife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Witch of Fife write by Judy Paterson. This book was released on 1998. The Witch of Fife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context
The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context write by Julian Goodare. This book was released on 2002-09-21. The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-16th century to the early 18th. It particularly emphasizes the later stages, since scholars are now as keen to explain why witch-hunting declined as why it occurred. There are studies of particular witchcraft panics, including a reassessment of the role of King James VI. The book thus covers a wide range of topics concerned with Scottish witch-hunting - and also places it in the context of other topics: gender relations, folklore, magic and healing, and moral regulation by church and state.
Secret Dunfermline
Secret Dunfermline - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secret Dunfermline write by Gregor Stewart. This book was released on 2018-10-15. Secret Dunfermline available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explore Dunfermline's secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
The Weem Witch
The Weem Witch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Weem Witch write by Leonard Low. This book was released on 2006. The Weem Witch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In March 1704 Patrick Morton, a 16-year-old blacksmith in the coastal Fife town of Pittenweem, claimed to have found a witch's spell left at his door - a wooden bucket containing a fire coal and some water. At once he felt ill, or so he said - he could barely stand, had no appetite, became emaciated. In May he started to have fits. Morton accused several local women of tormenting him by witchcraft, setting off a witch-hunt reminiscent of the Middle Ages, dragging innocent women and men into a snare of repression and death, The Weem Witch tells the story of the Pittenweem witches, using contemporary documents to bring a horrifying episode in Scotland's past under the spotligh
