Isobel Gowdie was a Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft at Auldearn near Nairn during 1662. Scant information is available about her age or life...
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The Confession of Isobel Gowdie is a work for large symphony orchestra by the Scottish composer James MacMillan. It is, according to the composer, a Requiem...
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English painter Isobel Gowdie, Scottish woman who was tried for witchcraft in 1662 Isobel Elsom (1893-1981), English actress Isobel Joyce (born 1983)...
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Gowdie is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Isobel Gowdie, Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft in 1662 John Gowdie (1682–1762)...
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Symphony Orchestra's premiere of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie at the BBC Proms in 1990. Isobel Gowdie was one of many women executed for witchcraft in...
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Nairn named Isobel Gowdie was accused and confessed to four counts of Witchcraft and is immortalised in The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, an orchestra...
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which she concluded that Gowdie had been involved in some form of shamanic visionary trances. In The Visions of Isobel Gowdie Wilby extended the hypothesis...
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have been inspired by Janet Gowdie, a Vampire-Witch hybrid and daughter of the real falsely accused witch Isobel Gowdie and a vampire named Nickie-Ben...
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auspicious. A rabbit is an animal into which shapeshifting witches such as Isobel Gowdie claimed to be able to transform themselves. Witches were said to be...
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Duncan Bessie Dunlop Isobel Elliot Issobell Fergussone John Fian Agnes Finnie Maud Galt Gormshuil Mhòr na Maighe (aka Gormla) Isobel Gowdie Helen Guthrie Gwen...
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of witches firing them. Per the testimony of Scottish accused witch Isobel Gowdie, these elf-arrows were given to witches by the Devil, who asked them...
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ointment – Hallucinogenic salve used in the practice of witchcraft Isobel Gowdie – Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft at Auldearn near Nairn...
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end. August 22 – James MacMillan's symphonic piece The Confession of Isobel Gowdie premieres at The Proms in London. August 24 A judge rules that heavy...
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John Dee Robert Fludd (1574–1637), occult philosopher and astrologer Isobel Gowdie (d. 1662), self-confessed professional sorcerer Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726)...
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Sacrifice; Veni veni Emmanuel (percussion concerto); The Confession of Isobel Gowdie; St. John Passion; 3 symphonies Steve Martland 1959 2013 English John...
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novel centred on the real-life accusations of witchcraft made against Isobel Gowdie. Brodie-Innes is believed to have been one of Dion Fortune's occult...
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gatherings. Fairies were an important part of magical beliefs in Scotland. Isobel Gowdie, the young wife of a cottar from near Auldearn, who was tried for witchcraft...
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focusing it in on the case of the accused witch Isobel Gowdie for her second book, The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early...
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(The) Confession of Isobel Gowdie". Gramophone. Retrieved June 2, 2016. "Macmillan: The World's Ransoming; The Confession of Isobel Gowdie". BBC Music Magazine...
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for Paul Temple Steve Patrick Rayner BBC Radio 4 12 October 2011 I Confess: The Power of the Confession Isobel Gowdie Liza Greig BBC Radio 3 The Essay...
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and directed by Meggie Greivell which dramatises her story, that of Isobel Gowdie, and other "sundry witches" from the nearly 4000 accused in the Scottish...
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co-founded with her ex-husband. The Door Into Summer (2008) Praxis (2011) Isobel Gowdie (2019) Facebook page MySpace page Record Label: Language of Stone The...
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books on folklore and occult history, including the confessions of Isobel Gowdie. In it, she and Hellboy investigated the mass murders in the small European...
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magical practices provided by Isobel Gowdie, a Scottish woman accused of witchcraft in 1662, during her confessions. Gowdie claimed that she rode through...
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witnessed the queen as a "fine woman, clad in a white walicot." Similarly, Isobel Gowdie's confession described the "Qwein of Fearrie" as handsomely ("brawlie")...
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"original" intent of their practices. For example, Murray interpreted Isobel Gowdie's confession to cursing a farm field by setting loose a toad pulling...
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ISBN 9783319640891. Wilby, Emma (4 June 2010). The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland...
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Proms, such as the 1990 Premiere of James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. The last twenty years has seen the gradual emergence of the BBC SSO...
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Duncan Bessie Dunlop Isobel Elliot Issobell Fergussone John Fian Agnes Finnie Maud Galt Gormshuil Mhòr na Maighe (aka Gormla) Isobel Gowdie Helen Guthrie Gwen...
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St John Passion, (2008) The World's Ransoming and The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (2007); Mozart's Requiem (2007); Nielsen's Symphonies Nos. 4–5 (2011);...
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