Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft: Modern English Edition

By Sir Walter Scott

Book Overview

First published in 1830, Demonology and Witchcraft is essential reading to students of the occult. Scott's treatise on demonology explores the prevalence of belief in witchcraft in the Middle Ages. He... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1537778560
• ISBN13: 9781537778563
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Public Domain problem

First, this isn't a review of the book itself. I can't review the book because the print-to-order edition is unreadable. I don't mind people taking public domain text and producing their own editions, but if you're going to do so, please at least align it so the right side of the pages doesn't look like a garbled, staggered mess. It literally takes the single press of a button in Word to do so.

A masterful work from 1900

Oddly enough, this book talks more about Faeries and defends many accused of witchcraft of influence by the fair folk upon the glens and moors.It is a remarkable work that has Scott's own articulate hand bringing a very interesting world of Celtic myths and fables to life while the rigors of a new age dawn upon them.

Strangeness from the Age of Reason

I had always thought of Sir Walter as a rather rational, stodgy, Brit - then I came cross a copy of this book - now I'm not sure what to think. Sir Walter actually seemed to believe many local superstitions (the Banshee, for example). The odd thing is that he seems to have "scientificly" weighed all the evidence. But I guess that if you were sitting around the fire on a cold Scotish night being told ghost stories, your objectivity could be expected to drop at least somewhat.