Emma Wilby

Author of Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic

About the Author

Emma Wilby is an Honorary Fellow in History at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic, and The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in show more Seventeenth-Century Scotland. show less

Works by Emma Wilby

The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland (2010) 77 copies

Invoking the Akelarre: Voices of the Accused in the Basque Witch-craze, 1609–1614 (2019) 9 copies

It All Began Here (2006) 2 copies

The Witch's Familiar and the Fairy in Early Modern England and Scotland 2 copies

Invocar el aquelarre: Las voces de los acusados durante la caza de brujas vasca del período 1609-1614 (Spanish Edition) (2025) 1 copy

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