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Witches of the North. Scotland and Finnmark is a comparative study of witchcraft persecution in Scotland and Finnmark, Norway. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative analyses based mainly on legal documents shed light on the witch-hunts in the two regions during the seventeenth century. Statistical analyses give information about tendencies in the source material in total. The qualitative chapters contain close-readings of trial documents, wherein the various voices heard during a trial are analysed: the voice of the scribe, the voice of the law, the voice of the accused person and the voices of the witnesses. The analyses combined provide a broad view of the historical phenomenon in question as well as in-depth studies of individual witchcraft cases.

Esoteric sciences --- Scotland --- Norway --- Witchcraft --- History. --- 248.222 --- 291.33 --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Vrijwillige relaties met de duivel. Satanisme. Hekserij. Toverij --- Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- 291.33 Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- 248.222 Vrijwillige relaties met de duivel. Satanisme. Hekserij. Toverij --- History --- Witchcraft - Scotland - History. --- Witchcraft - Scotland - Orkney - History. --- Witchcraft - Scotland - Shetland - History. --- Witchcraft - Norway - Finnmark fylke - History.