 The subsequent hysteria, known as the Witch Hunt, caused the death of around 40,000 people, most of whom were women.Sometimes, those found with grimoires, particularly demonological ones, were prosecuted and dealt with as witches but, in most cases, those accused had no access to such books.Highly literate Iceland proved an exception to this, where a third of the 134 witch trials held involved people who had owned grimoires.