text: One work about these events discusses Conrad Stoeckhlin as a “virtuoso performer of popular culture” and bricoleur.
full_question: One work about these events discusses Conrad Stoeckhlin as a “virtuoso performer of popular culture” and bricoleur. Another microhistory explaining the origin of these events traces an ancient fertility cult in which people’s spirits would supposedly battle malevolent outsiders that threatened local crops. These books are Wolfgang Behringer’s Shaman of Obserstdorf and Ginzburg’s The Night Battles. One book describing these events helped changed perceptions of victims of these events from educated males to uneducated females and was Johannes Nider’s Formicarius. Notable locations of these events include Trier, Fulda, and Wurzburg. A handbook used to guide these events, written by Sprenger and Kramer is the Malleus Maleficarum. For 10 points, name these events that often lead to the burning of women accused of consorting with the devil.
first_sentence: One work about these events discusses Conrad Stoeckhlin as a “virtuoso performer of popular culture” and bricoleur.