Valais witch trials (English Wikipedia)

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  • in Schaffhausen for as early as 1402/3, see Modestin (2005), p. 404 (fn 32), citing O. Landolt, "'Mit dem Für zuo ir richten und si zuo Bulfer verbrennen'. Zauberwahn und Hexenverfolgung im spätmittelalterlichen Schaffhausen", Schaffhauser Beiträge zur GeSchichte 78 (2004), 161-185 (p. 170f.). Especially in the 1970s (Cohn 1975, Kieckhefer 1976) scholars would extend the witch-trials to the beginning of the 14th century, see the long list of accusations against individuals compiled by Kieckhefer, European Witch Trials (1976), 108ff.
  • P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, Witch Beliefs and Witch Trials in the Middle Ages: Documents and Readings (2011), 182–184.
  • Modestin (2005), p. 407. wan ir ouch jetzünd gar vil was, wann si verjachentt, das ir gesellschafft werde wol sibenhundert. Dera sind mer dan zweihundert verbrent worden in anderthalbem jare, und brent man und richt man si noch alle tage, wa man si begriffen mag. Und ist in welschen landen und in den taeleren nid Wallis und hinder Wallis und by Sant Bernhartzberg oüch vil verbrentt - der zall ich aber nit weiß, darümb ich si nit schriben noch summen kan. Translation in P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, Witch Beliefs and Witch Trials in the Middle Ages: Documents and Readings (2011), 187.
  • Wolfgang Behringer, Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria: Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe (2003), 70f.

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