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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

Author
Walter Scott
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
10 hours 40 minutes
ISBN
9781802565409
Published
21 April 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Supernatural Beliefs
  • 18th Century
  • 19th Century
  • Witch Trials
  • Folklore
  • Demonic Entities
  • Societal Perceptions
  • Magic
  • Occult
  • Superstitions

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Description

Scott's letter essays on witch trials, folklore, and the fear that made neighbours into demons. History of superstition with a clear, sceptical mind. Spoken as usable counsel when you want the social machinery of belief named without a spellbook tone.

Author

Walter Scott (1771–1832) invented the historical novel as a popular art. Waverley, Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy taught Europe that the past could be walked through — tartan, crusade, and the clash of Highland and Hanoverian as living weather, not a school lesson. A poet and an Edinburgh lawyer before the novels made him famous, Scott wrote at a pace that built Abbotsford and a nation's tourist imagination.

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