Weird Sisters
Scottish Witches in the Literary Imagination Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds â heaven, hell or fairyland. This book analyses fictional and imaginative writings about Scottish witches between about 1450 and 1750, placing witches in their historical context, comparing them with real people who were prosecuted and executed for in this dark period of Scotlandâs past. Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds â heaven, hell or fairyland. By the later sixteenth century, as witchcraft prosecutions gathered pace, fictional witches were connected more firmly to the Devil and to hell. Writers then began undermining this by treating witchcraft as a topic of ridicule; threatening magic was replaced by harmless folklore. This book analyses fictional and imaginative writings about Scottish witches between about 1450 and 1750. It places literary witches in their historical context, comparing them with real people who were prosecuted and executed for witchcraft in this dark period of Scotlandâs past. It turns out that literary witches are often very different from historical ones: most are comical characters, and some are not even human. The phrase âweird sistersâ, familiar from Shakespeareâs Macbeth, originated in Scotland, and there is a detailed discussion of the meaning of the phrase and connections between the âScottish playâ and Scotland itself. Many of Scotlandâs famous Renaissance poets and dramatists wrote about witches, including William Dunbar, Sir David Lindsay and Alexander Montgomerie, and their work is also explored. By the end of the book, the discussion turns to Robert Burnsâs âTam oâ Shanterâ (1791) in which literary witches are fantasy fiction â as they have remained.
Scottish Witches in the Literary Imagination Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds â heaven, hell or fairyland. This book analyses fictional and imaginative writings about Scottish witches between about 1450 and 1750, placing witches in their historical context, comparing them with real people who were prosecuted and executed for in this dark period of Scotlandâs past. Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds â heaven, hell or fairyland. By the later sixteenth century, as witchcraft prosecutions gathered pace, fictional witches were connected more firmly to the Devil and to hell. Writers then began undermining this by treating witchcraft as a topic of ridicule; threatening magic was replaced by harmless folklore. This book analyses fictional and imaginative writings about Scottish witches between about 1450 and 1750. It places literary witches in their historical context, comparing them with real people who were prosecuted and executed for witchcraft in this dark period of Scotlandâs past. It turns out that literary witches are often very different from historical ones: most are comical characters, and some are not even human. The phrase âweird sistersâ, familiar from Shakespeareâs Macbeth, originated in Scotland, and there is a detailed discussion of the meaning of the phrase and connections between the âScottish playâ and Scotland itself. Many of Scotlandâs famous Renaissance poets and dramatists wrote about witches, including William Dunbar, Sir David Lindsay and Alexander Montgomerie, and their work is also explored. By the end of the book, the discussion turns to Robert Burnsâs âTam oâ Shanterâ (1791) in which literary witches are fantasy fiction â as they have remained.
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Scottish Witches in the Literary Imagination Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds â heaven, hell or fairyland. This book analyses fictional and imaginative writings about Scottish witches between about 1450 and 1750, placing witches in their historical context, comparing them with real people who were prosecuted and executed for in this dark period of Scotlandâs past. Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds â heaven, hell or fairyland. By the later sixteenth century, as witchcraft prosecutions gathered pace, fictional witches were connected more firmly to the Devil and to hell. Writers then began undermining this by treating witchcraft as a topic of ridicule; threatening magic was replaced by harmless folklore. This book analyses fictional and imaginative writings about Scottish witches between about 1450 and 1750. It places literary witches in their historical context, comparing them with real people who were prosecuted and executed for witchcraft in this dark period of Scotlandâs past. It turns out that literary witches are often very different from historical ones: most are comical characters, and some are not even human. The phrase âweird sistersâ, familiar from Shakespeareâs Macbeth, originated in Scotland, and there is a detailed discussion of the meaning of the phrase and connections between the âScottish playâ and Scotland itself. Many of Scotlandâs famous Renaissance poets and dramatists wrote about witches, including William Dunbar, Sir David Lindsay and Alexander Montgomerie, and their work is also explored. By the end of the book, the discussion turns to Robert Burnsâs âTam oâ Shanterâ (1791) in which literary witches are fantasy fiction â as they have remained.
