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Below you will find a list of academic articles or theses that are available for download from various places across the internet (mostly found via Google Scholar or JSTOR). As far as I am aware - to the best of my knowledge - these are all freely available. Most links lead to a pdf download, but there may occasionally be .doc files as well. They are listed in alphabetical order of author under each relevant sub-heading.
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Archaeology and History
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Monuments and the Construction of the Past in Early Historic Ireland - Nicholas Aitchison (thesis)
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The Atlantic Scottish Iron Age: The Five Levels of Chronology – Ian Armit
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An Archaeology of Iron Age Domestic Settlement in Northern Scotland - Andrew Baines (thesis)
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Were the Scots Irish – Ewan Campbell
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The Late Iron Age and Early Historic Period – Stephen Driscoll and Katherine Forsyth
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Aspects of the Late Atlantic Iron Age - Sally Foster (thesis)
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Archaeology and Folklore of Material Culture, Ritual, and Everyday Life – A Gazin-Schwartz
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The Art of the Book of Deer – Jane Geedes
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The Céli Dé and Ecclesiastical Government in Ireland in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries - Craig Haggart (thesis)
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The Women of the Glen: Some thoughts on Highland History - Hamish Henderson
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Society in Scotland from 700BC to AD200 – Richard Hingley
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The Idea of Antiquity in Visual Images of the Highlands and Islands c.1700-1880 - Anne MacLeod (thesis)
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Christianity and Burial in Late Iron Age Scotland, AD400-650 - Adrián Maldonado Ramírez (thesis)
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Identifying Burials of the Irish Iron Age and Transitional Periods – T McGarry
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Gaelic in Scottish History and Culture - Michael Newton
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Marriage in Early Ireland - Donnchadh Ó Corráin
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Painted Pebbles in Early Scotland – Anna Ritchie
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The Human Head in Insular Pagan Celtic Religion – Anne Ross
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Elite Material Culture of Ireland: An Analysis of Religious Identities - Karen Ross
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Religion and Society in Ireland - Clare Stancliffe
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The Archaeology of Navan, Ireland - Helen Steele
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Celts, Celticisation and the Irish Bronze Age - John Waddell
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Cosmology
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The Circle and the Cross: Reflections on the Holy Wells of Ireland - Walter Brenneman |
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Irish Perceptions of the Cosmos – Liam Mac Mathúna
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Water Imagery in Early Irish – Kay Muhr
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Religious Beliefs of the Pagan Irish - J O' Beirne Crowe
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The Bluest-Greyest-Greenest Eye: Colours of Martyrdom and Colours of Winds as Iconographic Landscape - Alfred K. Siewers
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The Crane in Ireland
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Customs
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Marriage Superstitions in Scotland
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Superstitions in the Isle of Man
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The Funerary Customs of Ireland - James Mooney
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Space and Time in Irish Folk Rituals and Tradition - Lijing Peng and Qiu Fangzhe
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Festivals
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Plough Rituals in England and Scotland – T Davidson
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Ceremonial Folk-Song, Mumming, and Dance in the Isle of Man - Mona Douglas
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Festivals, Faces and Fire: A Survery of Fieldwork – Ian MacKenzie
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The Festival of Brigit the Holy Woman – Séamas Ó Catháin
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Gender Aspects of the Traditional Calendar - Gearóid Ó Crualaoich (Google docs view)
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The Holiday Customs of Ireland - James Mooney
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Halloween in America: Contemporary Customs and Performances - J Santino
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The Óenach - Laura Ward (Honours Thesis)
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Geis, Fate, and Taboo
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Fate in Early Irish Texts – Jacqueline Borsje
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Druids, Deer and “Words of Power”: Coming to Terms with Evil in Medieval Ireland – Jacqueline Borsje |
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Geis, Prophecy, Omen and Oath – T. M. Charles-Edwards
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Geis, a literary motif in early Irish literature – Qiu Fangzhe
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Honour-bound: The Social Context of Early Irish Heroic Geis – Philip O'Leary
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Space and Time in Irish Folk Rituals and Tradition - Lijing Peng and Qiu Fangzhe
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The Use of Prophecy in the Irish Tales of the Heroic Cycle - Caroline Francis Richardson
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Early Irish Taboos as Traditional Communication: A Cognitive Approach – Tom Sjöblom
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Gods, Goddesses and Good Folk
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Monotheistic to a Certain Extent: The 'Good Neighbours' of God in Ireland – Jacqueline Borsje
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The 'Terror of the Night' and the Morrígain: Shifting Faces of the Supernatural – Jacqueline Borsje
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Brigid: Goddess, Saint, 'Holy Woman', and Bone of Contention - C.M. Cusack
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War-goddesses, furies and scald crows: The use of the word badb in early Irish literature – Kim Heijda
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The Enchanted Islands: A Comparison of Mythological Traditions from Ireland and Iceland - Katarzyna Herd
The Early Irish Fairies and Fairyland - Norreys Jephson O' Conor
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The Washer at the Ford - Gertrude Schoepperle
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The Withdrawal of the Fertility God - Annelise Talbot
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Water-Beings in Shetlandic Folklore, as Remembered by Shetlanders in British Colombia - J A Teit
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Milk Symbolism in the 'Bethu Brigte' - Thomas Torma
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Healing and Medicine
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Getting Shot of Elves: Healing, Witchcraft and Fairies in the Scottish Witchcraft Trials – Alaric Hall
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Folk-healing, Fairies and Witchcraft: The Trial of Stein Maltman, Stirling 1628 – Alaric Hall
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Medicine and Early Irish Law – Fergus Kelly
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The Medical Mythology of Ireland - James Mooney
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Reading the Bean Feasa - Gearoid Ó Crúalaoich
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A Charm for Staunching Blood – David Stifter
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Irish Medical Superstition - John Windele
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Kingship
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Conn Cétchathach and the Image of Ideal Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland - Grigory Bondarenko
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King in Exile in Airne Fíngein (Fíngen's Vigil): Power and Pursuit in Early Irish Literature - Grigory Bondarenko
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Sacral Elements of Irish Kingship - Daniel Bray
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Kingship in Early Ireland – Charles Doherty
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Medical Aspects of the First Recorded Celtic Invasion of Ulster (the Táin) - H.W. Gallagher
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The King as Judge in Early Ireland – Marilyn Gerriets
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The Practice of Irish Kingship in the Central Middle Ages - Mark Zumbuhl (thesis)
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Myth, Literature and Tradition
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The Saintly Madman: A Study of the Scholarly Reception History of Buile Suibhne - Alexandra Bergholm
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Fled Bricrenn and Tales of Terror – Jacqueline Borsje
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Supernatural Threats to Kings: Exploration of a Motif in the Ulster Cycle and in Other Medieval Irish Tales – Jacqueline Borsje
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Human Sacrifice in Medieval Irish Literature - Jacqueline Borsje
Demonising the Enemy: A study of Congall Cáech - Jacqueline Borsje
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The Evil Eye' in early Irish literature – Jacqueline Borsje and Fergus Kelly
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"The Three Things Required of a Poet" – John Carey
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The Irish National Origin-Legend: Synthetic Pseudohistory – John Carey
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"Transmutations of Immortality in 'The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare'" – John Carney
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Child-centred Law in Medieval Ireland – B Ní Chonaill
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The Pictish Tattoo: Origins of a Myth - Richard Dibon-Smith
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Approaches to Religion and Mythology in Celtic Studies – Clodagh Downey
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Scottish Gaelic Women's Poetry up to 1750 - Catherine Frater
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'A Fenian Pastime'?: early Irish board games and their identification with chess - Timothy Harding
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The pre-19th Century Manuscript Tradition and Textual Transmission of the Early Modern Irish Tale Oidheadh Con Culainn: A Preliminary Study - Julia Kuhns (thesis)
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Six Hundred Gaelic Proverbs Collected in Ulster - Robert Mac Adams
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Six Hundred Gaelic Proverbs Collected in Ulster (Continued) - Robert Mac Adams
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Orality in Medieval Irish Narrative: An Overview - Joseph Falaky Nagy
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Oral Life and Literary Death in Medieval Irish Tradition - Joseph Falaky Nagy
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The Death of Diarmaid in Scottish and Irish Tradition – Donald F. Meek
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Satirical Narrative in Early Irish Literature – Ailis Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh
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Lia Fáil: Fact and Fiction in the Tradition – Tomás Ó Broin
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Irish Myths and Legends - Thomas Ó Cathasaigh
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Viking Ireland: Afterthoughts - Donnchadh Ó Corráin
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Sport, Games, Women and Warriors: An Historical and Philosophical Examination of the Early Irish Ulster Cycle - Jacquelyn Osborne (thesis)
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'Nation' Consciousness in Early Medieval Ireland - Miho Tanaka
Bás inEirinn: Cultural Constructions of Death in Ireland – Lawrence Taylor
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Re-entering the West Room: On the Power of Domestic Spaces – Lawrence Taylor
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Ritual and myths between Ireland and Galicia. The Irish Milesian myth in the Leabhar Gabhála Éireann: Over the Ninth Wave. Origins, contacts and literary evidence - Monica Vazquez
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Continuity, Cult and Contest - John Waddell
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Picts
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The Drosten Stone: A New Reading – Thomas Owen Clancy
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The Early Historic Landscape of Strathearn: The Archaeology of a Pictish Kingdom - Stephen Driscoll (thesis)
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English and Pictish Terms for Brooch in an 8th Irish Law Text - C Etchingham and C Swift
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Some Thoughts on Pictish Symbols as a Formal Writing System – Katherine Forsyth
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Literacy in Pictland – Katherine Forsyth
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Language in Pictland: Spoken and Written – Katherine Forsyth
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Language in Pictland: The Case Against 'Non-Indo-European Pictish – Katherine Forsyth
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The Grammar of the Pictish Symbol Stones – Toby Griffen
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The Pictish Art of the Archer Guardian – Toby Griffen
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The Otherworld
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Cú Roí and Svyatogor: A Study in Chthonic – Grigory Bondarenko
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Autochthons and Otherworlds in Celtic and Slavic – Grigory Bondarenko
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The 'Terror of the Night' and the Morrígain: Shifting Faces of the Supernatural – Jacqueline Borsje
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'The Otherworld in Irish Tradition,'- John Carey
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The Location of the Otherworld in Irish Tradition – John Carey
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Prophecy, Storytelling and the Otherworld in Togail Bruidne Da Derga – Ralph O' Connor
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Wisdom Texts
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The Economics and Ethics of Ireland - Brian Gerard Canny
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Tecosca Cormaic: The Compilation of a Wisdom Text - Maxim Fomin |
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Wisdom Texts from Early Christian Ireland: Aspects of Style, Syntax, and Semantics - Maxim Fomin |
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Bríatharthecosc Con Culainn in the Context of Early Irish Wisdom-Literature - Maxim Fomin |
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A Newly Discovered Fragment of the Early Irish Wisdom Text Tecosca Cormaic in TCD MS 1298 - Maxim Fomin
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The Triads of Ireland - Kuno Meyer |
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Wisdom Literature in Early Ireland - Christopher Guy Yocum |
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The Literary Figure of Fíthal - Christopher Guy Yocum
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Wise-Men, Wise-Women and Witchcraft
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The Evil Eye' in early Irish literature – Jacqueline Borsje and Fergus Kelly
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Rules and Legislation on Love Charms in Early Medieval Ireland - Jacqueline Borsje
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Bridget Cleary Speaks! - Steve Coleman
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Folk-healing, Fairies and Witchcraft: The Trial of Stein Maltman, Stirling 1628 – Alaric Hall
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Getting Shot of Elves: Healing, Witchcraft and Fairies in the Scottish Witchcraft Trials – Alaric Hall
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Witch-hunting and Witch Belief in the Gàidhealtachd - Lizanne Henderson
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The Survival of Witchcraft Prosecutions and Witch Belief in South-West Scotland - Lizanne Henderson
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Witchcraft and Family: What Can Witchcraft Documents Tell Us About Early Modern Scottish Family Life? - Lauren Martin
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The Medical Mythology of Ireland - James Mooney
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Reading the Bean Feasa - Gearoid Ó Crúalaoich
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Last Updated on Monday, 28 May 2012 10:08 |