Witches of the North: Scotland and Finnmark

By Liv Helene Willumsen

Witches of the North. Scotland and Finnmark is a comparative study of witchcraft persecution in Scotland and Finnmark, Norway. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative analyses based mainly on legal documents shed light on the witch-hunts in the two regions during the seventeenth century. Statistical analyses give information about tendencies in the source material in total. The qualitative chapters contain close-readings of trial documents, wherein the various voices heard during a trial are analysed: the voice of the scribe, the voice of the law, the voice of the accused person and the voices of the witnesses. The analyses combined provide a broad view of the historical phenomenon in question as well as in-depth studies of individual witchcraft cases.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004252916
• ISBN13: 9789004252912
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 408 Pages