HISTORY OF SCOTTISH WITCHES: THE DEVILS HANDMAIDENS (HB)

Using examples from actual trial records and so-called witch confessions, this book explores the phenomenon of witch persecution in Scotland between 1563 and 1736. How did the Scottish church and the courts fall into a frenzy of belief that the Devil was around every corner? And why did so many come to believe this? Mary W Craig examines how societal norms surrounding women caused so many to face the rope and the flames and how those norms were exacerbated by the chaos of the reformation and the wars of the Three Kingdoms.