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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (Paperback)
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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (Paperback)
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Loot Price R563
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In ill health following a stroke, Sir Walter Scott wrote Letters on
Demonology and Witchcraft at the behest of his son-in-law, J. G.
Lockhart, who worked for a publishing firm. The book proved popular
and Scott was paid six hundred pounds, which he desperately needed.
(Despite his success as a novelist, Scott was almost ruined when
the Ballantyne publishing firm, where he was a partner, went
bankrupt in 1826.) Letters was written when educated society
believed itself in enlightened times due to advances in modern
science. Letters, however, revealed that all social classes still
held beliefs in ghosts, witches, warlocks, fairies, elves,
diabolism, the occult, and even werewolves. Sourcing from prior
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century treatises on demonology along
with contemporary accounts from England, Europe, and North America
(Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi, for one), Scott's discourses on
the psychological, religious, physical, and preternatural
explanations for these beliefs are essential reading for acolytes
of the dark and macabre; the letters dealing with witch hunts,
trials (Letters Eight and Nine), and torture are morbidly
compelling. Scott was neither fully pro-rational modernity nor
totally anti-superstitious past, as his skepticism of one of the
"new" sciences (skullology, as he calls it) is made clear in a
private letter to a friend. Thus, Letters is both a personal and
intellectual examination of conflicting belief systems, when
popular science began to challenge superstition in earnest.
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