Visions of Isobel Gowdie : magic, shamanism & witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland
Wilby, Emma2009
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Among historians, the confessions of Isobel Gowdie are celebrated for providing an insight into the way fairy beliefs and witch beliefs interacted in the early modern mind; more controversially, they are also cited as evidence for the existence of Shamanistic visionary traditions, of pre-Christian origin, in Scotland in this period.
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Brighton : Sussex Academic, 2009.
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320 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9781845191801 (pbk)1845191803 (pbk)9781845191795 (hbk)184519179X (hbk)
Dewey class:
133.4'3'09411'09032133.43092133.43
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133.43
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English
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BRN:
1602409
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