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Adam, Isabel, Witch Hunt: The Great Scottish Witchcraft Trials of 1697 (London: Macmillan, 1978)

Adams, W.H.D., Witch, Warlock and Magician: Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland (London: n.p., 1889)

Akrigg, G.P.V., "The Literary Achievement of King James I", University of Toronto Quarterly, 44 (1975), 115-29

Bain, Joseph (ed.), The Border Papers: Calendar of Letters and Papers Relating to the Affairs of the Borders of England and Scotland, 2 vols. (Edinburgh: H.M. General Register House, 1894-6)

Black, George Fraser, A Calendar of Witchcraft Cases in Scotland, 1510-1727 (New York: New York Public Library, 1938)

Black, George Fraser, Some Unpublished Scottish Witchcraft Trials (New York: New York Public Library, 1941)

Boyd, W.F., "Four and Twenty Blackbirds . . .: More on Ergotism, Rye, and Witchcraft in Scotland", Area, 27 (1995), 77-79

Brown, P.H. (ed.), Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 1627-1628 2nd Series 2. (Edinburgh: n.p., 1900)

Cameron, Charles, Scottish Witches (2nd ed., Norwich: Jerrold, 1990)

Campbell, John, Witchcraft and Second-Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Glasgow: n.p., 1902)

Carlyle, T., "Sign of the Times", Edinburgh Review, 59 (1829), 439-59

Chambers, R., Domestic Annals of Scotland (Edinburgh: n.p., 1861)

Clark, Stuart, "King James's Daemonologie: Witchcraft and Kinsghip", in Sydney Anglo (ed.), The Damned Art: Essays in the Literature of Witchcraft (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977), 156-81

Cowan, E. J., "The Darker Version of the Scottish Renaissance: The Devil and Francis Stewart", in I.B. Cowan et al. (eds.), The Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Essays in Honour of Gordon Donaldson (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1983), 125-40

Dunfermline District Libraries (ed.), The Seventeenth-Century Witch Craze in West Fife: A Guide to the Printed Sources (Dunfermline: Dunfermline District Libraries, 1980)

Ferguson, John, "Bibliographical Notes on the Witchcraft Literature of Scotland", Proceedings of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (1899), ??

Gilmore, J., "Witchcraft and the Church in Scotland Subsequent to the Reformation" (Ph.D. thesis, University of Glasgow, 1948)

Gow, N., "Of Pricking and Burning Witches: Old Scottish Witchcraft Trials", New Law Journal, 6814 (1997), 1602-?

Graham, Michael F., The Uses of Reform: "Godly Discipline" and Popular Behavior in Scotland and Beyond, 1560-1610 (New York: E.J. Brill, 1996)

Green, Charles E., East Lothian (Edinburgh and London: William Green and Sons, 1907)

Keiller, Alexander, The Personnel of the Aberdeenshire Witchcraft Covens (London: n.p., 1922)

Lamont-Brown, Raymond, Scottish Witchcraft (Edinburgh: Chambers, 1994)

Larner, Christina, Enemies of God: The Witch Hunt in Scotland (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981; London: Chatto and Windus, 1981; Oxford: Blackwell, 1983)

Larner, Christina, "James VI and I and Witchcraft", in Alan G.R. Smith (ed.), The Reign of James VI and I (London: Macmillan, 1973), 74-90; repr. in Christina Larner, Witchcraft and Religion, ed. Alan Macfarlane (Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984), 3-22

Larner, Christina, "Scottish Demonology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and its Theological Background" (Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1962)

Larner, Christina, C.H. Lee, and H.V. McLachlan, A Source-Book of Scottish Witchcraft (Glasgow: S.S.R.C. Project on Accusations and Prosecution for Witchcraft in Scotland, 1977)

Larner, Christina, "Two Late Scottish Witchcraft Tracts: Witchcraft Proven and The Tryal of Witchcraft", in Sydney Anglo (ed.), The Damned Art: Essays in the Literature of Witchcraft (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977), 227-45

Larner, Christina, "Witch Beliefs and Accusations in England and Scotland", History Today, 31 (1981), 32-36; repr. in Repr. in Christina Larner, Witchcraft and Religion, ed. Alan Macfarlane (Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984), 69-78

Larner, Christina, Witchcraft and Religion, ed. Alan Macfarlane (Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984)

Lee, Jr., Maurice, Government by Pen: Scotland under James VI and I (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980)

Lee, Jr., Maurice, Great Britain's Solomon: James VI and I in his Three Kingdoms (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990)

Legge, F., "Witchcraft in Scotland", The Scottish Review, 18 (1891), 257-88

Lenman, Bruce, "The Limits of Godly Discipline in the Early Modern Period with particular Reference to England and Scotland", in Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800 (London: German Historical Institute and George Allen and Unwin, 1984), 124-45

Levack, Brian P., "The Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661-1662", Journal of British Studies, 20 (1980), 90-108

Levack, Brian P. (ed.), Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology: A Twelve-Volume Anthology of Scholarly Articles, vol. 7 Witchcraft in Scotland, (New York: Garland, 1992)

Lochhead, Marion, Magic and Witchcraft of the Borders (London: R. Hale, 1984)

MacCulloch, J.A., "The Mingling of Fairy and Witch Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Scotland", Folklore: The Transactions of the Folk-Lore Society, 32 (1921), 229-44

McDonald, S.W., "The Bargarran Witch Trial: A Psychiatric Assessment", Scottish Medical Journal, 41 (1996), 152-ff.

McKerrow, R.B. (ed.), A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland and Foreign Printers of English Books, 1557-1640 (London: Bibliographical Society, 1910; repr. 1968)

McLachlan, Hugh, and J.K. Swales, "Scottish Witchcraft: Myth or Reality?", Contemporary Review, 260 (1992), 79-84

McLachlan, Hugh, and J.K. Swales, "Stereotypes and Scottish Witchcraft", Contemporary Review, 234 (1979), 88-94.

Melville, R.D., "The Use and Form of Judicial Torture in Scotland", Scottish Historical Review, 2 (1905), 225-48

Millar, John, A History of the Witches of Renfrewshire (Paisley: n.p., 1809)

Murray, George, M.R. {Aptd an Ian Hodkinson,} "Prestongrage and its Painted Ceiling", Transactions of the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists' Society, 10 (1966), ??

Neill, W.N., "The Professional Pricker and his Test for Witchcraft", Scottish Historical Review, 19 (1922), 205-13

Nelson, George, "A Sermon on Witchcraft in 1697", Scottish Historical Review, 7 (1910), 390-99

Normand, Lawrence, and Gareth Roberts, Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2000)

Plomer, Henry R. (ed.), A Dictionary of Booksellers and Printers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland, 1641-1667 (London: Bibliographical Society, 1907; repr. 1968)

Pollard, A.W., and G.R. Redgrave (comps.), A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland and Ireland . . . 1475-1667, 3 vols. (2nd ed. rev. W.A. Jackson, F.S. Ferguson, and Katherine F. Pantzer, London: Bibliographical Society, 1986-91)

Roughead, William, "The Witches of North Berwick", in William Roughead The Riddle of the Ruthvens and Other Essays (new ed., Edinburgh: Moray Press, 1936), 144-66

Scott, Sir Walter, Witchcraft Letters Addressed to J.G. Lockhart Esq. (repr. New York: n.p., 1970)

Scott, Sir Walter, Minstrelry of the Scottish Border, 2 vols. (Kelso: n.p., 1802)

Scott-Moncrieff, W.G. (ed.), Proceedings of the Justiciary Court from 1661 to 1678 (n.l.: Scottish History Society, vol. 48, 1905)

Seth, Ronald, In the Name of the Devil: Great Scottish Witchcraft Cases (London: Jarrolds, 1969)

Sharpe, Charles K., Historical Account of the Belief in Witchcraft in Scotland (London and Glasgow: n.p., 1894)

Stafford, Helen, "Notes on Scottish Witchcraft Cases, 1590-91", in Norton Downs (ed.), Essays in Honor of Conyers Read (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 96-118

Truckell, A.E., "Unpublished Witchcraft Trials", Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 51-52 (1975-6), 48-58 and 95-108

Wasser, M., and L. Yeoman (eds.), "The Trial of Geillis Johnstone for Witchcraft 1614", Miscellany, 4th series, Scottish Historical Society, ? (1998), ??

Watson, Geoffrey, Bothwell and the Witches (London: Hale, 1975)

Whyte, Ian D., "Ergotism and Witchcraft in Scotland", Area, 26 (1994), 89-90

Willumsen, Liv Helene, "Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Trials in Scotland and Northern Norway" (PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008)

Willumsen, Liv Helene, "Witches in Scotland and Norway. Two Case Studies," in Peter Graves and Anne Kruse (eds.), Images and Imaginations: Perspectives on Britain and Scandinavia (Edinburgh: Lockharton Press, 2007), 35-66

Wormald, J., "The Witches, the Devil, and the King", in T. Brotherstone and D. Ditchburn (eds.), Scotland: The History of the Medieval Nation: Essays Presented to Grant G. Simpson (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1995)


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