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Chapters (76)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Also by Karen Brooks
  4. Title Page
  5. Dedication
  6. EXPLANATORY NOTE
  7. PART ONE
  8. One
  9. Two
  10. Three
  11. Four
  12. Five
  13. Six
  14. Seven
  15. Eight
  16. Nine
  17. Ten
  18. Eleven
  19. Twelve
  20. Thirteen
  21. Fourteen
  22. Fifteen
  23. Sixteen
  24. Seventeen
  25. Eighteen
  26. Nineteen
  27. Twenty
  28. Twenty-One
  29. Twenty-Two
  30. Twenty-Three
  31. Twenty-Four
  32. Twenty-Five
  33. Twenty-Six
  34. Twenty-Seven
  35. Twenty-Eight
  36. PART TWO
  37. Twenty-Nine
  38. Thirty
  39. Thirty-One
  40. Thirty-Two
  41. Thirty-Three
  42. Thirty-Four
  43. Thirty-Five
  44. PART THREE
  45. Thirty-Six
  46. Thirty-Seven
  47. Thirty-Eight
  48. Thirty-Nine
  49. Forty
  50. Forty-One
  51. Forty-Two
  52. Forty-Three
  53. Forty-Four
  54. Forty-Five
  55. Forty-Six
  56. Forty-Seven
  57. Forty-Eight
  58. Forty-Nine
  59. Fifty
  60. Fifty-One
  61. Fifty-Two
  62. PART FOUR
  63. Fifty-Three
  64. Fifty-Four
  65. Fifty-Five
  66. Fifty-Six
  67. Fifty-Seven
  68. Fifty-Eight
  69. Fifty-Nine
  70. Sixty
  71. Sixty-One
  72. Epilogue: Autumn 1706
  73. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  74. GLOSSARY
  75. LIST OF CHARACTERS
  76. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I read so many books on Scottish history, witchcraft in Scotland, England and throughout Europe, as well as about fishing and Pittenweem and East Neuk/Fife and the sea-life to write this book and I am indebted and inspired by the writings of these authors and wish to pay tribute to as many as I can:

There was Neil Oliver’s A History of Scotland, Alistair Moffat’s Scotland: A History from Earliest Times, Chris Bambery’s A People’s History of Scotland, Hugh Trevor-Roper’s The Invention of Scotland: Myth and history, and David R Ross’s Women of Scotland.

The Makers of Scotland: Picts, Romans, Gaels and Vikings by Tim Clarkson, Curious Scotland: Tales from a hidden history by George Rosie, Walking Through Scotland’s History, Two thousand years on foot by Ian R Mitchell and The Landscape of Scotland by ER Wickham-Jones. Also excellent were The Domestic Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century by Marjorie Plant, and A History of Everyday Life in Scotland 1600–1800 edited by Elizabeth Foyster and Christopher A Whatley. A Handbook of Scotland’s Coasts edited by Fi Martynoga was a delightful read and took me back to Scotland and the many, many walks I did while there. I also used some books with a very local flavour that I purchased while in Pittenweem and Anstruther, and these were so useful. In My Ain Words: An East Neuk Vocabulary by Mary Murray — what a rich and marvellous way of expressing themselves the people of this region have! Auld Anster by Alison Thirkell — a wonderful little resource. I also used a photographic record of old Pittenweem simply called that by Eric Munson, which not only supplemented the many photos I took, but transported me back to another time and place.

In terms of books on witchcraft, apart from those mentioned above, I also used Witchcraft and Trials for Witchcraft in Fife by Johan Ewart Simpkins, The Scottish Witch-hunt in Context edited by Julian Goodare, The Witches of Fife: Witch-hunting in a Scottish shire 1560–1710 by Stuart Macdonald, A True and Full Relation of The Witches At Pittenweem [&c.] — Primary Source Edition, 1704 (various authors), A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight with an original essay on Witchcraft by David Webster (1820), and, of course, the wonderful and deeply disturbing The Weem Witch by Leonard Low.

I also utilised many websites and newspaper articles about Pittenweem and the witches.

I bought a fabulous resource, The Scots Thesaurus edited by Iseabail Macleod with Pauline Cairns, Caroline Macafee and Ruth Martin, as well as other books that helped immerse me in the language and culture — that is, apart from my own wonderful memories of my Ross grandmother, Margaret, and relatives and Fraser step-grandfather, Charles, and my friend Robbie Gilligan with his beautiful, musical way of saying things.