MEET THE CONTRIBUTORS

Julian Goodare is Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. His books include The European Witch-Hunt (2016), and he is director of the online Survey of Scottish Witchcraft.

On page 15, Professor Goodare investigates the financial consequences of witch-hunting in Scotland.

Michelle D. Brock is Associate Professor of History at W&L University, Virginia. She has written widely on religion and belief in early modern Scotland, and is the author of Satan and the Scots:The Devil in Post-Reformation Scotland, c.1560-1700.

The devil in early modern Scotland is the subject of Professor Brock's article on page 32, exploring how far belief in Satan permeated everyday life.

Dr Sierra Dye is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on gender and judicial evidence in Scotland’s witch trials, particularly the relationship between words and witchcraft.

Women and their words is the theme of Dr Dye’s study (page 40) of the role of disorderly speech in sustaining witch-belief and witch-hunting in Scotland.

Dr Lizanne Henderson is Senior Lecturer in History at the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow. She has written widely on witch- and magic-belief in early modern Scotland, including in the monograph Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of the Enlightenment: Scotland 1670-1740 .

On page 48, Dr Henderson unpicks the relationship between livestock and magic, with specific reference to cattle.

Nicole Maceira Cumming is an AHRC-funded PhD candidate at the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, and a committee member of the Northern Early Modern Network. Her current research examines the impact of the Reformation on human and animal relationships in early modern Scotland.

On page 24, Nicole explores the nature of therianthrophy, the transformation of people into animals.