Letters on demonology and witchcraft

Walter Scott’s letters discuss supernatural belief, witch trials, ghosts, and related traditions with a literary historian’s eye. Written in the early nineteenth century, the book is important for reflecting Romantic-era interest in folklore and for surveying European and Scottish ideas about the uncanny.

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.