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David Sempill is being torn apart. Young and idealistic, his loyalty to his King conflicts with his Covenanting sympathies, which are, in turn, tested by the brutality he witnesses towards Montrose's beaten army. When black magic is uncovered in the ancient Witch Wood, as a man... Read Full Overview

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Witch Wood is a 1927 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan that critics have called his masterpiece. The book is set in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and combines the author's interests in landscape, 17th century Calvinism, and the fate of... Read Full Overview

Witch Wood is a story of seventeenth-century witchcraft in the Wood of Caledon in the Scottish Borders. The parish minister tries in vain to prevent devil worship and protect his protestant congregation. Meanwhile, civil unrest of the Scottish Wars of the Covenant divides the... Read Full Overview

Set against the religious struggles of seventeenth-century Scotland, with Montrose for the king against a convenanted kirk, John Buchan's Witch Wood is a gripping atmospheric tale in the spirit of Stevenson and Neil Munro. As a moderate Presbyterian minister, young David Sempill... Read Full Overview

In 1644 Reverend David Sempill begins his ministry at a small Scottish town, but soon comes in conflict with the extremists of his faith.

Witch Wood is a 1927 novel by the Scots author John Buchan, set in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Critics have called it Buchan's masterpiece.Set amidst the religious struggles of the 17th century, this is the story of a young minister's return to... Read Full Overview

Set amidst the religious struggles of the 17th century, this is the story of a young minister's return to the town of his birth. There he finds a coven of Satan worshippers and falls deeply in love with one of their victims in a struggle for right and wrong.

Set amidst the religious struggles of the 17th century, this is the story of a young minister's return to the town of his birth. There he finds a coven of Satan worshippers and falls deeply in love with one of their victims in a struggle for right and wrong.

Set amidst the religious struggles of the 17th century, this is the story of a young minister's return to the town of his birth. There he finds a coven of Satan worshippers and falls deeply in love with one of their victims in a struggle for right and wrong.

Witch Wood is a 1927 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan that critics have called his masterpiece. The book is set in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and combines the author's interests in landscape, 17th century Calvinism, and the fate of... Read Full Overview

Considered a masterpiece by critics, John Buchan's Witch Wood combines the author's interests in landscape, Calvinism, and the fate of Scotland after the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

In seventeenth-century Scotland, religious struggles run rampant. Here, Young David Sempill,... Read Full Overview

Considered a masterpiece by critics, John Buchan's Witch Wood combines the author's interests in landscape, Calvinism, and the fate of Scotland after the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

In seventeenth-century Scotland, religious struggles run rampant. Here, Young David Sempill,... Read Full Overview