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This article compares Scott’s use of learned publications and popular traditions as sources for the supernatural, especially in The Lay of the Last Minstrel and The Lady of the Lake. It argues that Scott balances rational scepticism with belief through the poetic text and its notes, and considers how authorial responsibility and reading circles influence his selection and presentation of material.","‘out-of-the-way reading’ and ‘hoaryheaded tradition’: Walter Scott’s Supernatural Scholarship and Poetry  \nNATALIE TAL HARRIES  \nLLMVC, University of Aberdeen  \nScott’s practice of ‘out-of-the-way reading’ and interest in the superstitions of ‘hoaryheaded tradition’ informs his supernatural scholarship, which underpins and completes the presentation of supernatural themes, characters, and circumstances in his poems. This article examines Scott’s comparative treatment of scholarly publications and popular traditions as supernatural sources and outlines his approach to the incorporation of supernatural elements in his poetry, with particular reference to The Lay of the Last Minstrel and The Lady of the Lake. It argues that Scott mediates the tension between the rational and the supernatural, and scholarship and superstition, by balancing scepticism and belief in the poetic text and its accompanying notes. It also demonstrates how Scott’s dissemination of supernatural material is influenced by his views on authorial responsibility and his identification of distinct reading circles. An analysis of Scott’s methodology supported by close readings of the poems reveals the complexities in his poetic portrayal of the supernatural and his scholarly engagement with supernatural sources. Scott aligns himself with an older poetic tradition in his rejection of classicism and decision to draw upon the superstitions of his native country instead, allowing him to preserve and recast the popular traditions of Scottish history and folklore and the supernatural associations of Scottish settings ashe appreciates that both are an intrinsic part of Scotland’s unique character.  \nKeywords: Walter Scott; Supernatural; Superstition; Romantic Poetry; The Lay of the Last Minstrel; The Lady of the Lake  \nScott’s fascination with witchcraft, Demonology, ghosts and supernatural  \nfolklore began at an early age as he later recalls: ‘Among much reading of my early days, it is no doubt true that I travelled a good deal in the twilight regions  \nContact: Natalie Tal Harries \u003C[natalie.harries@abdn.ac.uk](natalie.harries@abdn.ac.uk)>  \n[https://doi.org/10.57132/jiss.376](https://doi.org/10.57132/jiss.376 6)[ 6](https://doi.org/10.57132/jiss.376 6)  \n‘out-of-the-way reading’ and ‘hoary-headed tradition’ • 7  \nof superstitious disquisitions.’1 This admission corresponds with Scott’s account of his early reading in his letters:  \nI was too much permitted to study what I liked and when I liked which was very little and very seldom. To mend the matter I stuffed my brains with all such reading as was never read and in the department of my memory where should be a Roman Patera lo! there is a witches cauldron.2  \nIn another letter to Robert Surtees, he celebrates the progress of his friend’s‘demoniacal collection’ and suggests that they should ‘compile a system of Daemonology, with the choicest examples which out-of-the-way reading and hoaryheaded tradition can supply.’3 Scott’s supernatural scholarship is focused on the examination of material supplied by these two sources. His description of his esoteric reading as ‘out-of-the-way’ is interesting as Samuel Taylor Coleridge employs the same expression to convey his own enthusiasm for ‘all out of the way books,’ and uses it as a collective term for unusual texts on ‘Metaphysics,& Poetry, & “Facts of Mind” –(i.e. Accounts of all the strange phantasms that ever possessed your philosophy-dreamers from Tauth the Egyptian to Taylor the English Pagan) .’4 The practice of ‘out-of-the-way reading’ then, as defined by Scott and Coleridge, is a form of literary or scholarly exploration into the unknown: an intentional choice to veer off the beaten track of ordinary reading and engage instead with ‘all such reading as was never read.’ Several Romantic poets share this interest in out-of-the-way books; however, certain areas of interest and specialisation are also clearly distinct. 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