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The Visions of Isobel Gowdie

Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland

by Emma Wilby

A close study of the extraordinary 1662 confessions of Isobel Gowdie of Auldearn, which include flights to fairy hills, shape-shifting and charms in verse. Wilby analyses the interrogation process, the cultural sources of Gowdie's imagery and the possibility of visionary experience. Detailed and imaginative, it is a model micro-history for readers interested in Scottish witchcraft, folklore and the interpretation of trial records.

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