Scot, Reginald

Scot, Reginald.The discoverie of witchcraft. Edited by Hugh Ross Willimason. Edited by Hugh Ross Williamson. Carbondale (IL) Southern Illinois Univ. P., 1964. Book 14 Discusses Alchemy... 

Scot, Reginald. [The discoverie of withcraft] Reginald Scot on alchemy. rhttp //www.levitv.com/alchemv/regscot. htmll. 

Scot, Reginald, Discoverie of witchcraft S.H.,A new treatise of the pestilence (1603). 

Scot, Reginald. The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Arundel Centaur Press, 1964. 

Scot, Reginald. The Discovery of Witchcraft. London Hemy Denham for William Brome, 1584. 

Reginald Scot s influential The discoverie of Witchcraft, (first issued in 1584 and reprinted a number of times in the 17th century), has a section (the fourteenth book) devoted to a criticism of alchemy... 

The psychopathological theory of witchcraft is, as we have seen, not the only available or possible explanation of the witch-hunts. The view that witches were society s scapegoats was held by Reginald Scot four hundred years ago, was articulated into a comprehensive and persuasive explanation by Jules Michelet more than one hundred years ago, and was massively documented from original sources by Henry Charles Lea more than fifty years ago. Why then do institutional psychiatrists and psychiatric historians ignore this competing explanation, and prefer instead the view that witches were madwomen An effort to answer this question will help to clarify not only the practical import of these two theories of the witch-craze, but also the nature of Institutional Psychiatry as a modern mass movement. 

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