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100 1 _aScott, Walter,
_d1771-1832
245 1 0 _aLetters on Demonology and Witchcraft
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2004
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_on_Demonology_and_Witchcraft
500 _aRelease date is 2004-12-25
508 _aEtext Produced by Clare Boothby, Paul Moots and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger
520 _a"Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft" by Walter Scott is a study published in 1830 that surveys beliefs about witchcraft, ghosts, and the supernatural from Biblical times to the 19th century. Written as informal letters to his son-in-law, Scott draws on extensive folklore research to present supernatural anecdotes while analyzing them through a rationalist lens. The work examines how ignorance and prejudice fueled belief in demons and witches, and how witch hunts often targeted heretics and political enemies. This pioneering work influenced Victorian Gothic fiction and helped shape modern anthropological approaches to folklore. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aDemonology
653 _aWitchcraft
700 1 _aMorley, Henry,
_d1822-1894
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14461
999 _c55849
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