Explores the impact of science on hysteria and irrational persecutions of supposedly possessed people.

Book, also known as "The Witch Hammer," was used as a guide by medieval European witch hunters. Read the complete text and related writings.

Read excerpts from Innocent VIII's papal bull of 1484, Johannes Nider's "The Ant Hill" and "The Hammer of Witches."

Read the story of the trial and persecution of men and women in this German town during the seventeenth century. Includes illustrations.

Student paper describes the persecution of witches from CE1450 - 1750, and offers theories for the hysteria directed against witches.