Template:RQ:Scott Demonology

1830, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:

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Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Walter Scott's work Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (1st edition, 1830). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) to be quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

You must specify this information to have the template determine the letter (I–X) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment about the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

Examples

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Scott Demonology|page=179|passage=In our childhood, our mothers' maids have so terrified us with an ugly devil having horns on his head, {{...}} whereby we start and are afraid when we hear one cry, '''Boh'''!}}; or
  • {{RQ:Scott Demonology|179|In our childhood, our mothers' maids have so terrified us with an ugly devil having horns on his head, {{...}} whereby we start and are afraid when we hear one cry, '''Boh'''!}}
• Result:
  • 1830, Walter Scott, “Letter VI”, in Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 179:

    In our childhood, our mothers' maids have so terrified us with an ugly devil having horns on his head, […] whereby we start and are afraid when we hear one cry, Boh!

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Scott Demonology|pages=314–315|pageref=315|passage=The majority of the jury which tried {{w|Barbara Napier}}, having acquitted her of attendance at the North Berwick meeting, were themselves threatened with a trial for wilful error upon an assize, and could only escape from severe censure and punishment by pleading Guilty, and submitting themselves to the king's pleasure. This rigorous and '''iniquitous''' conduct shows a sufficient reason why there should be so few acquittals from a charge of witchcraft, where the juries were so much at the mercy of the Crown.}}
• Result:
  • 1830, Walter Scott, “Letter IX”, in Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 314–315:

    The majority of the jury which tried Barbara Napier, having acquitted her of attendance at the North Berwick meeting, were themselves threatened with a trial for wilful error upon an assize, and could only escape from severe censure and punishment by pleading Guilty, and submitting themselves to the king's pleasure. This rigorous and iniquitous conduct shows a sufficient reason why there should be so few acquittals from a charge of witchcraft, where the juries were so much at the mercy of the Crown.