Bibliography of Scottish Witchcraft Julian Goodare Introduction This is a bibliography of works on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, primarily in the early modern period. The aim has been to produce a list that historians working on these topics today will find useful. It includes, not only works on Scottish witchcraft per se, but also works on closely-related topics that witchcraft scholars cannot ignore – two examples being torture and fairy belief. It omits works of purely historiographical interest and popular works that have no claim to originality. It also omits works concerned with the period after about 1800, unless they also shed light on beliefs and practices of earlier times. Finally, it omits works published before 1800; for these see the bibliographical article by John Ferguson, listed below. Whether a work is about ‘Scotland’ may sometimes be debated. A few works have been included because they are substantively about Scotland even though their title does not say so. Also included are works that discuss Scotland and another country (usually England) in a comparative context. On the other hand, works that use some Scottish material in the context of developing a more general case have been excluded. The bibliography is divided into four sections: 1. Lists of witchcraft cases 2. Published primary sources 3. Published secondary works 4. Unpublished theses In general, works are listed under the surname of the author. However, a given author’s works may be found in various places in the bibliography, partly because of the division into sections and partly because of the following conventions. Debates in journals are grouped together, listed under the surname of the author of the first article. Collections of essays have been treated in three different ways: 1. If the book contains a small number of relevant chapters, then these are listed individually under the name(s) of the author(s) of the chapter(s); the book itself is not listed separately. 2. If all or even most of the book’s chapters are relevant, then the book receives a single entry under the name(s) of the editor(s) of the book, followed by a list of all the individual chapters. This occasionally results in some chapters being listed that would not otherwise have qualified for inclusion. 3. If the book is a collection of reprints, then this is noted and all the Scottish material that it contains is listed, including full publication details of the 234 Bibliography of Scottish Witchcraft 235 original works. This, too, occasionally results in some works being listed that would not otherwise have qualified for inclusion. Any reprinted works that are considered relevant also receive their own entry with the original publication details. 1. Lists of witchcraft cases G. F. Black, ‘A calendar of cases of witchcraft in Scotland, 1510–1727’, Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 41 (1937), 811–47, 917–36, and 42 (1938), 34–74; also published as G. F. Black, A Calendar of Cases of Witchcraft in Scotland, 1510– 1727 (New York, 1938) Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller and Louise Yeoman, ‘The Sur- vey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563–1736’ (www.shc.ed.ac.uk/Research/witches/, archived January 2003, updated October 2003) Christina Larner, Christopher H. Lee and Hugh V. McLachlan, A Source-Book of Scottish Witchcraft (Glasgow, 1977) Stuart Macdonald, ‘The Scottish Witch Hunt Data Base’ (CD-Rom, privately published, 2001) 2. Published primary sources Joseph Anderson (ed.), ‘The confessions of the Forfar witches (1661)’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 22 (1887–1888), 241–62 R. Burns Begg (ed.), ‘Notice of trials for witchcraft at Crook of Devon, Kinross- shire, in 1662’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 22 (1887– 1888), 211–41 G. F. Black (ed.), ‘Confessions of Alloa witches’, Scottish Antiquary, 9 (1895), 49–52 G. F. Black (ed.), ‘Some unpublished Scottish witchcraft trials’, Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 45 (1941), 335–42, 413–22, 671–84, 763–80; also pub- lished as G. F. Black (ed.), Some Unpublished Scottish Witchcraft Trials (New York, 1941) G. F. Black and Northcote W. Thomas (eds.), Examples of Printed Folklore Con- cerning the Orkney & Shetland Islands (Folk-Lore Society: County Folk-Lore, vol. iii: Printed Extracts, no. 5: London, 1903), ‘Superstitious beliefs and practices: witchcraft: trials’, pp. 55–139 John Christie (ed.), Witchcraft in Kenmore, 1730–57: Extracts from the Kirk Session Records of the Parish (Aberfeldy, 1893) Michael Hunter (ed.), The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland (Woodbridge, 2001) James Hutchisone, ‘A sermon on witchcraft in 1697’, ed. George Neilson, Scottish Historical Review, 7 (1910), 390–9 King James VI, Minor Prose Works, ed. James Craigie (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1982) – includes his Daemonologie (1597) King James VI & I, Selected Writings, eds. Neil Rhodes, Jennifer Richards and Joseph Marshall (Aldershot, 2003) – includes his Daemonologie (1597) David Laing (ed.), ‘An original letter to the laird of Wishaw (now presented to the Museum), relating to the proceedings against James Aikenhead “the 236 Bibliography of Scottish Witchcraft Atheist,” and the trial of witches in Paisley in 1696’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 11 (1874–1876), 438–45 Angus Macdonald (ed.), ‘A witchcraft case of 1647’, Scots Law Times (News) (10 April 1937), 77–8 Hugh McLachlan (ed.), The Kirk, Satan and Salem: A History of the Witches of Renfrewshire (Glasgow, 2006) J. R. N. Macphail (ed.), ‘Papers relating to witchcraft, 1662–1677’, in Highland Papers, 4 vols. (Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 1914–1934), iii, 2–38 M. A. Murray (ed.), ‘Two trials for witchcraft’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 56 (1921–1922), 46–60 Lawrence Normand and Gareth Roberts (eds.), Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: James VI’s Demonology and the North Berwick Witches (Exeter, 2000) David M. Robertson (ed.), Goodnight My Servants All: The Sourcebook of East Lothian Witchcraft (Glasgow, 2007) George Sinclair, Satans Invisible World Discovered, ed. Thomas G. Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1871) John Stuart (ed.), ‘Trials for witchcraft, 1596–1598’, Miscellany of the Spalding Club, i (1841), 82–193 Trial, Confession, and Execution of Isobel Inch, John Stewart, Margaret Barclay & Isobel Crawford, for Witchcraft, at Irvine, anno 1618 (Ardrossan and Saltcoats, n.d. [c.1855]) A. E. Truckell (ed.), ‘Unpublished witchcraft trials’, Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society,3rdser.,51 (1975), 48–58, and 52 (1976), 95–108 Michael B. Wasser and Louise A. Yeoman (eds.), ‘The trial of Geillis Johnstone for witchcraft, 1614’, Scottish History Society Miscellany, xiii (2004), 83–145 David Webster (ed.), Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight (Edinburgh, 1820) Louise A. Yeoman (ed.), ‘Witchcraft commissions from the register of commis- sions of the privy council of Scotland, 1630–1642’, Scottish History Society Miscellany, xiii (2004), 223–65 3. Published secondary works Isabel Adam, Witch Hunt: The Great Scottish Witchcraft Trials of 1697 (London, 1978) Priscilla Bawcutt, ‘Elrich fantasyis in Dunbar and other poets’, in J. D. McClure and M. R. G. Spiller (eds.), Bryght Lanternis: Essays on the Language and Literature of Medieval and Renaissance Scotland (Aberdeen, 1989), 162–78 Priscilla Bawcutt, ‘ “Holy words for healing”: some early Scottish charms and their ancient religious roots’, in Luuk Houwen (ed.), Literature and Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (Leuven, 2012), 127–44 G. F. Black, ‘Scottish charms and amulets’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 27 (1892–1893), 433–526 Roy Booth, ‘Standing within the prospect of belief: Macbeth, King James, and witchcraft’, in John Newton and Jo Bath (eds.), Witchcraft and the Act of 1604 (Leiden, 2008), 47–67 Bibliography of Scottish Witchcraft 237 John Brims, ‘The Ross-shire witchcraft case of 1822’, Review of Scottish Culture,5 (1989), 87–91 J. W. Brodie-Innes, Scottish Witchcraft Trials (London, 1891) Alan Bruford, ‘Scottish Gaelic witch stories: a provisional type list’, Scottish Studies, 11 (1967), 13–47 Alan J. Bruford, ‘Workers, weepers and witches: the status of the female singer in Gaelic society’, Scottish Gaelic Studies, 17 (1996), 61–70 Hugh Cheape, ‘Lead hearts and runes of protection’, Review of Scottish Culture,18 (2006), 149–55 Stuart Clark, ‘King James’ Daemonologie: witchcraft and kingship’, in Sydney Anglo (ed.), The Damned Art: Essays in the Literature of Witchcraft (London, 1977), 156–81 Edward J. Cowan, ‘The darker vision of the Scottish Renaissance: the Devil and Francis Stewart’, in Ian B. Cowan and Duncan Shaw (eds.), The Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1983), 125–40 J. G. Dalyell, The Darker Superstitions of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1834) Thomas Davidson, Rowan Tree and Red Thread (Edinburgh, 1949) Kirsty Duncan, ‘Was ergotism responsible for the Scottish witch hunts?’, Area, 25 (1993), 30–6; Ian D. Whyte, ‘Ergotism and witchcraft in Scotland’, Area, 26 (1994), 89–90, and rejoinder by Duncan, 90–2; W. F. Boyd, ‘Four and twenty blackbirds: more on ergotism, rye and witchcraft in Scotland’, Area,27 (1995), 77 Rhodes Dunlap, ‘King James and some witches: the date and text of the Daemonologie’, Philological Quarterly, 54 (1975), 40–6 John Ferguson, ‘Bibliographical notes on the witchcraft literature of Scotland’, Proceedings