Hall, Alaric (2006) Folk-healing, fairies and witchcraft: the trial of Stein Maltman, Stirling 1628. Studia Celtica Fennica, 3. pp. 10-25. ISSN 1795-097X
Abstract
'Folk-healing, Fairies and Witchcraft: The Trial of Stein Maltman, Stirling 1628' is the first full publication of a trial record which is particularly valuable in the history of Scottish popular belief, that of Stein Maltman, of Leckie, about twelve kilometres to the West of Stirling. Although our text has itself been edited from the original transcripts of depositions and confessions by the seventeenth-century scribe, it provides important information about folk-healing practices, maleficium, and the role of fairies in the construction of illness in early modern Scotland. The case seems to be representative of endemic rather than epidemic witchcraft-trials, and the mentions of fairies attributed to Stein and which he is himself recorded to make may closely reflect his professional construction of healing practices.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Copyright © 2006 Finnish Society for Celtic Studies |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Repository Officer |
Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2009 10:51 |
Last Modified: | 16 Sep 2016 13:43 |
Published Version: | http://www.sfks.org/scf_en.php |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Finnish Society for Celtic Studies |
Refereed: | Yes |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:5581 |