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Magic and Witchcraft in Scotland Tekijä: Joyce Miller
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ChristyD8 | 1 muu arvostelu | Jul 15, 2022 | This books brings together memories of Edinburgh drinkers and is illustrated with a fair number of period photographs, though these could have done with being a bit bigger.½
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VictorTrevor | Dec 1, 2011 | If you are a beginner starting to research the history, and practice of witchcraft in the Scottish region, then this book is a good start. It is not an overly academic tome; it reads easily and can be digested in one sitting.
The bibliography gives you material with which to widen your knowledge and there are maps and information aplenty on the various sites mentioned in the chapters, so you can take the book on tour with you.
Although the book is divided into sections, there is considerable overlapping of subject matter.
This brings me to my main quibble. The book is badly edited. The grammar is appalling and quite a few sentences are repeated within the same paragraph; and it is the same with whole subject matters, where there is a doubling up within the book and the wording appears to vary only a little. It can be somewhat jarring to the reader.
There are some matters presented as fact, which are in dispute within the historical community and the author seems to make the decision for the reader by not offering alternative viewpoints. Anyone who is genuinely interested, however, will find this out for themselves upon further research.
Still much better than many other books about Scottish magical traditions and practices. Well done to the author; may she find a better editor next time.
The bibliography gives you material with which to widen your knowledge and there are maps and information aplenty on the various sites mentioned in the chapters, so you can take the book on tour with you.
Although the book is divided into sections, there is considerable overlapping of subject matter.
This brings me to my main quibble. The book is badly edited. The grammar is appalling and quite a few sentences are repeated within the same paragraph; and it is the same with whole subject matters, where there is a doubling up within the book and the wording appears to vary only a little. It can be somewhat jarring to the reader.
There are some matters presented as fact, which are in dispute within the historical community and the author seems to make the decision for the reader by not offering alternative viewpoints. Anyone who is genuinely interested, however, will find this out for themselves upon further research.
Still much better than many other books about Scottish magical traditions and practices. Well done to the author; may she find a better editor next time.
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Sile | 1 muu arvostelu | Apr 27, 2007 | AwesomeBooks (Oxford, OX, United Kingdom) paperback
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kgreply | May 23, 2014 | näyttää 4/4
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