Witchery

-nearly 400 persecuted
-anyone denounced sorcerer by 3+ people was arrested
-burned at stake if they confessed
-tortured until they did confess
-mostly peasants
-unlike later trials, about as many men as women were killed
-accusations: flying thru air, invisible by use of herbs, curing sickness, cannibalism, abducting children, meet with Satan - taught them magic if they renounced christianity

-nearly 400 persecuted
-anyone denounced sorcerer by 3+ people was arrested
-burned at stake if they confessed
-tortured until they did confess
-mostly peasants
-unlike later trials, about as many men as women were killed
-accusations: flying thru air, invisible by use of herbs, curing sickness, cannibalism, abducting children, meet with Satan - taught them magic if they renounced christianity

"Hammer of Witches"
-announces satanists in Germany - meeting with demons, spells to destroy crops, aborting infants

Friar Heinrich Kramer and Friar Jacob Sprenger asked to publish full report on suspected witchcraft

-Over the next 40 years, the Malleus would be reprinted thirteen times and come to help define the crime of witchcraft.

-moles as sign if consort with demons

-120 + deaths
-strong Pagan area- little christianity
-accusations: injuring people, animals, land with spells, spread plague by magic,

decided Protestants and those loyal to the Pope

-greatest executions in Germany

Emperor Charles V - witchcraft affecting holy roman empire