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Outside In or Inside Out: Sleep Paralysis and Scottish Witchcraft

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Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters

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These two stories may seem to have little in common — especially since the people who teil them are separated by some three centuries:

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Dudley, M., Goodare, J. (2013). Outside In or Inside Out: Sleep Paralysis and Scottish Witchcraft. In: Goodare, J. (eds) Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137355942_8

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