Handwritten manuscript fragment, unsigned, one page, 8 x 10.25, no date but circa 1830. A page from the draft for Scott’s Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. In part: “Witchcraft, and abuse of the people. Her answers to the interrogatories of the judges or prosecutors ran thus. It being required of her, by what art she could tell of lost goods, or prophesy the event of illness. She replied, that of herself she had no knowledge or science of such matters, she was in the habit of applying to one Thome Reid, who died at the battle of Pinkie…as he himself affirmed, and who resolved her any questions which she asked of him.” Affixed to a slip bearing a notation concerning the origin of the page, which is subsequently affixed to a larger mount. In very good to fine condition, with two small tears from ink erosion, and several other similar professionally reinforced splits and tears. Scott had been fascinated with demonology and witchcraft since childhood and over the years he tirelessly researched and read about the subjects. Surveying opinions respecting demonology and witchcraft from the Old Testament period to his own day, Scott’s Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft became an overwhelming commercial success. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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