A COLLECTION OF RARE AND CURIOUS TRACTS ON WITCHCRAFT

A collection of historical witchcraft tracts, edited and reprinted by Webster, with some of his own original essays - it has been described by Ferguson in his "Bibliographical Notes on the Witchcraft Literature of Scotland" as one of the best of the reprints of rare witchcraft tracts."
The contents include:
"An Original Essay on Witchcraft",
"News from Scotland", a note "To the Reader",
"A True Discourse of the Damnable Life of Doctor Fian, and Sundry other Witches, lately taken in Scotland", "Another Account of the Foregoing Transactions, from Sir James Melvill's Memoirs",
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"Extracts from King James's Daemonologie concerning Sorcery and Witchcraft",
another "Notice to the Reader",
"Answer of a Letter from a Gentleman in Fife, to a Nobleman, containing an Account of the Barbarous and Illegal Treatment of the Witches in Pittenweem",