A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight

Description

A collection of essays on the witchcraft trials. Chapters include, A True Discourse of the Damnable Life of Doctor Fian, and Sundry other Witches, lately taken in Scotland; Extracts from King James's Daemonologie concerning Sorcery and Witchcraft; Answer of a Letter from a Gentleman in Fife, to a Nobleman, containing an Account of the Barbarous and Illegal Treatment of the Witches in Pittenweem; Trial of Isobel Elliot and others; Account of the Expense of Burning Margaret Denham; Trial of William Coke and Allison Dick; Extracts from King James's Daemonologie concerning Sorcery and Witchcraft; and many more.

This book has 40,523 words, 70 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1820.

Production notes: This ebook of A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight was published by Global Grey in 2020, and updated on the 5th August 2024. The artwork used for the cover is 'The Witches Sabbath' by David Teniers the Younger.