A series of these events targeting the Benandanti of Friuli is the subject of Carlo Ginzburg's microhistory The Night Battles.
A series of these events targeting the Benandanti of Friuli is the subject of Carlo Ginzburg's microhistory The Night Battles. A storm that nearly wrecked a Danish fleet carrying Princess Anne inspired a series of these events in North Berwick, which partly influenced a 1597 book endorsing them by James I. These events killed hundreds in Wurzburg during the 1620s, one of the last decades of a (*) "craze" of these events that began in the 1480s. A treatise on conducting these events written by Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer is titled Malleus Maleficarum. The subjects of these events were often thrown into water during them and were believed to meet in nocturnal sabbaths. For 10 points, name this type of proceeding conducted against suspected sorcerers, usually women.
A series of these events targeting the Benandanti of Friuli is the subject of Carlo Ginzburg's microhistory The Night Battles.
witch trials [or witch hunts; prompt on Inquisitions]