Table of Contents

Robert Boyle's notes on his interview with Lord Tarbat, 3 October 1678; "A Collection of Highland Rights and Customs"; Robert Kirk's "The Secret Commonwealth"; James Garden's letters to John Aubrey; Samuel Pepys's collection of letters on second sight; John Fraser's "Aeutepoakonia"; Edward Lhuyd's and Robert Wodrow's questionnaires and the responses of John Fraser and John MacLean. Appendix - quotations of biblical passages cited in the texts.

Reviews

Superb collection of original materials related to the 'strange reports' of the indidence of 'second sight' in Scotland.
*JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY [US]*

As a text compilation it is a very interesting and worthwhile addition to a very understudied area. Hunter should be applauded for calling our attention to these often-overlooked and significant texts.
*JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE*

Hunter is adept at identifying and interweaving the scientific, hermetic, evangelical, and Anglo-Scottish dimensions of the story... If the history of the transformations of witchcraft belief has absorbed an enormous amount of scholarly attention, this valuable assemblage of texts allows us to pursue related questions in a new and parallel way. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW The texts represent some of the contributions made y Scottish and English savants to a late 17t-century debate on the preternatural... A very useful contribution to the study of both early modern science and religious controversy. SCOTTISH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY Hunter is to be applauded for exposing new and exciting lines of potential reseach in the history of early modern science.
*BJHS*