Processes on witchcraft in Europe and the Russian Empire. Kantorovich Yakov

One of the Jesuits wrote at the end of the 16th century: “Our prisons are full of witches and sorcerers. The day does not pass so that our judges do not stain their hands in their blood and that we do not return home, shuddering from sad thoughts about terrible, disgusting things in which these witches admit. But the devil is so skillful that we barely have time to send witches to the fire, as new witches arise from their ashes. ” Inquisitors worked for glory: only more than one hundred thousand women were burned in France, the reign of King Francis I in France. The same thing happened throughout Europe - in Spain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and other countries. They destroyed beauties and uglyushki, clever and mentally ill, were built to bonfires on charges of relations with the devil of ancient old women and ten -year -old girls, who somehow stood out from an impersonal crowd. About how this happened - how the denunciations were written, evidence was collected, the investigation was carried out, how the executions took place, - says the book of the writer and lawyer Yakov Kantorovich (1859-1925).