WITCHES OF FIFE (PB)

The details of the witch-hunt in Fife are fascinating. The modern reader finds it hard to imagine illness being blamed on the malevolence of a beggar woman denied charity, for example. Witch-hunting was related to ideas, values, attitudes and political events. It was a complicated process, involving religious and civil authorities, village tensions and the fears of the elite. This book tells the story of what happened over a period of a century and a half and offers some explanation as to why it occurred.