“Witch, Warlock, and Magician: Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland” by W H. Davenport Adams from 1889 was recently added to Project Gutenberg and might be something to check out.
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The Bacchae
“A National Theatre of Scotland production.
Alan Cumming gives an award-winning, tour-de-force central performance as Dionysus, the charismatic and dangerous god in this adaptation of Euripidese classic tragedy.
His chorus of Bacchae are a high-octane line-up of scarlet-clad, soulful female singers.” [via], see]
Black Magic is Not a Myth in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“My most memorable personal experience of the effects of black magic occurred when I was living in Scotland. The machinations of a degraded and outcast member of the Order caused my hounds to die, my servants to become insane. The struggle lasted until the recoil of the current of hated caused the luckless sorcerer to collapse.” [via, also]
I Make Myself Invisible in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“It was at the direction of the head of the Order that I then went to Scotland, to my manor house of Boleskine, which is two or three miles from the Falls of Foyers.
My subsidiary object—the principal aim is too sacred to discuss—put into simple language was to gain control over the ‘four great princes’ of the evil of the world.” [via, also]
I Make Myself Invisible in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“Later, when I was transferring my apparatus to my house in Scotland, I employed two workmen to remove the mirrors. As they were working they were suddenly overcome, knocked out by unseen assailants. It took several hours to revive them.
People passing the doorway suddenly fell down in fits. That flat remained without a tenant for years after I had left it. All this was because I had not enough experience to control the forces.” [via, also]