Witch Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Witch Stories, credited to Eliza Lynn Linton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Witch Stories by Eliza Lynn Linton. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers A collection of stories in England, Scotland and thereabout based off court records for the charge of witchcraft during the witch delusion of the fifteenth and sixteenth century. (summary by a LibriVox Volunteer) From the author: "I do not profess to have exhausted the subject, or to have made so complete a summary as I might have done, had I been admitted into certain private libraries, which contain, I believe, many concealed riches. But I had no means of introduction to them, and was obliged to be content with such authorities as I found in the British Museum, and the other public libraries to which I had access. I do not think that I have left much untold; but there must be, scattered about England, old MSS. and unique copies of records concerning which I can find only meagre allusions, or the mere names of the victims, without a distinctive fact to mark their special history. Should this book come to a second edition, any help from the possessors of these hitherto unpublished documents would be a gain to the public."

Recording facts

• Recording title: Witch Stories
• Author credits: Eliza Lynn Linton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 113
• Listed recording duration: 14:39:07

Catalogue topics

• history
• non-fiction
• Occult
• witchcraft

Opening tracks: first 24 of 113

1. 000 - Preface — 2:48
2. 001 - The Witches of Scotland — 10:39
3. 002 - The Story of Lady Glammis — 3:27
4. 003 - Bessie Dunlop and Thom Reid — 7:19
5. 004 - Alison Pearson and the Fairy Folk — 5:54
6. 005 - The Crimes of Lady Fowlis — 10:40
7. 006 - Bessie Roy — 3:19
8. 007 - The Devil's Secretary — 9:38
9. 008 - The Grace Wife of Keith and Her Cummers — 16:31
10. 009 - The Two Alisons — 3:46
11. 010 - The Troubles of Aberdeen — 17:51
12. 011 - White Witches — 9:16
13. 012 - The Misdeeds of Isobel Grierson — 3:41
14. 013 - Bartie Paterson's Charm — 2:14
15. 014 - Beigis Tod and Her Compeers — 7:10
16. 015 - The Pitiful Fate of Margaret Barclay — 7:22
17. 016 - Margaret Wallace and Her Dear Burd — 4:39
18. 017 - Thom Reid Again — 4:21
19. 018 - Bessie Smith — 1:38
20. 019 - Thomas Grieves Enchantments (1623) — 3:24
21. 020 - Katherine Grant and Her Stoup — 2:01
22. 021 - The Misdeeds of Marion Richart — 2:55
23. 022 - Lady Lee's Penny and the Witches of 1629 — 4:29
24. 023 - Elspeth Cursetter and Her Friends — 7:14

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