Bute witches
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The Bute witches war sax Scots wummen accuisit o witchcraft an interrogate in Rothesay paroch on Bute durin the Great Scots Witch Hunt o 1661–62.[1] The Privy Cooncil grantit a Commeession o Juisticiary tae haud local assizes an fower o the wummen[2] – thocht bi historians tae be Margaret McLevin, Margaret McWilliam, Janet Morrison[a] an Isobell McNicoll[4] – war execute in 1662;[2] a fifth micht hae deed whan incarcerate.[5] Ane wumman, Jonet NcNicoll, escapit frae prison afore she coud be execute but whan she retourt tae the isle in 1673 the sentence wis implemented.
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[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Willumsen (2011), p. 536
- ↑ a b Henderson (2008), p. 105
- ↑ MacPhail (1920), p. 3
- ↑ Scott (2007), p. 279
- ↑ Scott (2007), p. 280
Bibliography
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Goodare, Julian (2001), "Witch-hunts", in Lynch, Michael (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Scottish History, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-211696-7
- Henderson, Lizanne (2008), "Witch-Hunting and Witch Belief in the Gàidhealtachd", in Goodare, Julian (ed.), Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-230-50788-3
- Henderson, Lizanne (2012), "The witches of Bute", in Ritchie, Anna (ed.), Historic Bute, land and people, The Scottish Society for Northern Studies, ISBN 0-9535226-4-4
- Henderson, Lizanne (2016), Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment Scotland, 1670–1740, Palgrave MacMillan, ISBN 978-1-137-31324-9
- Henderson, Lizanne; Cowan, Edward J. (2001), Scottish Fairy Belief: A History, Tuckwell, ISBN 1-86232-190-6
- Hewison, James King (1895), The Isle of Bute in the olden times, 2, William Blackwood and Sons
- Levack, Brian P. (2008), Witch-hunting in Scotland: law, politics and religion, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-39943-2
- MacPhail, James R. N. (1920), Highland Papers, III, Scottish History Society
- Scott, William (2007), The Bute Witches, Elenkus, ISBN 978-0-9521910-7-0
- Sutherland, Alex (2009), The Brahan Seer: The Making of a Legend, Peter Lang, ISBN 978-3-03911-868-7
- Wilby, Emma (2010), The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland, Sussex Academic Press, ISBN 978-1-84519-179-5
- Willumsen, Liv Helene (2011), "A Narratological Approach to Witchcraft Trial: A Scottish Case", Journal of Early Modern History, BRILL, 15 (6)