![]() ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. 2 Hopefully the combined multi-disciplinary tools of history, folklore, narratology and ethnology can shed new light on the subject. For the latter the eradication of such beliefs equated with progress and civilization, but for others, such as the devout, witch belief was a matter of faith, such that fear and dread of witches and their craft lasted well beyond the era of the major witch-hunts, a topic not hitherto fully investigated by historians of Scotland. It will be shown that the Enlightenment was undoubtedly a period of transition and redefinition of what constituted the supernatural, at the interface between folk belief and the philosophies of the learned. ![]() This book seeks to explore these phenomena as they were experienced in Scotland, while being mainly concerned with the period of supposed decline of witch belief, an age that has been referred to as the “long eighteenth century”, coinciding with the dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment. Over the centuries, both during and after the decades of the witchhunts, many Scots must have sought “informations” about “witches and witchcraft”. ![]()
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