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Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland

By Martha McGill
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By Martha McGill
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An examination of how and why Scotland gained its reputation for the supernatural, and how belief continued to flourish in a supposed Age of Enlightenment.

SHORTLISTED for the Katharine Briggs Award 2019

Scotland is famed for being a haunted nation, "whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry". Medieval Scots told stories of restless souls and walking corpses, but after the 1560Reformation, witches and demons became the focal point for explorations of the supernatural. Ghosts re-emerged in schola...

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HistoryEuropean HistoryBritish History - General & MiscellaneousGreat Britain - General & Miscellaneous History