Demonology and Witchcraft

Walter Scott’s *Demonology and Witchcraft* is a historical and literary survey of beliefs about witches, apparitions, and demonic agency, written with Scott’s characteristic interest in folklore and cultural history. It is significant for the way it reflects early 19th-century attitudes toward superstition and the supernatural, and readers will find anecdotes, historical examples, and skeptical commentary shaped by antiquarian inquiry.

Walter Scott (1771–1832) was a Scottish writer and historical novelist whose work engaged with folklore, antiquarianism, and the romantic imagination, themes that later intersected with esoteric and occult interests. He is not primarily an occult author, but his writings helped shape nineteenth-century literary interest in the supernatural, tradition, and national myth.