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Prelude: Early Witch-Hunting in Germany and Switzerland
- Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 4, Number 1, Summer 2009
- pp. 54-61
- 10.1353/mrw.0.0137
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This essay explores the earliest full-blown witch hunts in central Europe, in lands around the western Alps. It explores the trials, and the early demonological literature that the trials produced, as well as potential causes and future lines of inquiry.