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However, punishment for such crimes as witchcraft, infanticide, and adultery fell heavily on the women.

The book argues that witchcraft does not exist and that those who claim to practice it are suffering from delusions, which should be treated as mental illnesses, rather than punished as witchcraft.

It was influential in the abolishment of witchcraft trials in the Netherlands.

Weyer believed that most, probably all, cases of alleged witchcraft resulted from delusions of the alleged witch, rather than actual, voluntary cooperation with spiritual evil.

In brief, Weyer claimed that cases of alleged witchcraft were psychological rather than supernatural in origin.

De Praestigiis has been translated into English, French, and German; it was one of the principal sources of Reginald Scot's sceptical account of witchcraft, The Discoverie of Witchcraft.

Based on the non-fiction book The Honest Courtesan by Margaret Rosenthal, the film is about Veronica Franco, a courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice who becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.

Veronica is summoned to appear before the Inquisition on charges of witchcraft and refuses to name her clients.

Bewildered by the extent of sin in the city, the Inquisitor drops the charges of witchcraft, and Marco and Veronica reconcile.

It extensively studied apparitions of angels, demons and other spirits but also included dissertations on various topics of Magic, sorcery, witchcraft and instances of vampires, revenants and individuals returning from the grave.

Special relativity Jane Wenham (died 1730) was one of the last people to be condemned to death for witchcraft in England, although her conviction was set aside.