A group of students gathered in front of a house where they knew the president of the university was. They knew that public protest could force the authorities into action. The students demanded a thorough investigation of outrageous rumors about the university president. Witchcraft Research and Historical Comparison A student protest was part of it. Johannes Dillinger Hoxberg / Oxford, April 2009 I dedicate this book, like everything else, to my mother and the memory of my father. Abraham and Victor, my old friends, were examples to me. My students helped me to see things I thought I knew in a diп¬Ђerent light. My academic teachers and colleagues in TГјbingen, Washington, D.C., Trier, and Oxford aided me in innumerable ways. Dick Holway and Mark Mones demonstrated unusual interest and patience as editors. Laura Stokes wrote a brilliant translation that helped me to understand my own text better. Alison Rowlands, Wolfgang Behringer, Richard Golden, and Robert Walinski Kiehl helped me greatly with practical support. Without the unfailing help and the friendly interest of Erik Midelfort, the American who became the nestor of German witchcraft research, this book would never have been written-neither the American version nor the German original.

I owe a great debt of gratitude to numerous people who helped me to write this book on the witches I have known for so long. A little later still, I found out that some of my ancestors had been among the suspects. When I grew older, I learned that witches supposedly had danced in that wood. When I was a little boy, I knew that a witch lived in a little house in the wood on the edge of which my parentsвЂ™ house stood. вЂњA Slippery and Obscure BusinessвЂќ The End of the Witch Hunts ConclusionДЄppendix Chronology and Quantitative Analysis of the Persecutions 201 Glossary 213 Notes 215 Bibliography 249 Index 291 вЂњLet No One Accuse Us of NegligenceвЂќ The Inп¬‚uence of the Witch Hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier on Other Territories 149 6. We Thought He Had Been Caught AlreadyвЂќ Agents of Witch Hunting and the Management of Trials 98 5. вЂњIf She Is Not a Witch Yet, She Will Certainly Become OneвЂќ Origins and Foundations of Witchcraft Suspicions 74 4. Golden Goblets and CowsвЂ™ Hooves Witchcraft and MagicДЈ. вЂњAuthority and Liberties for the Country and the PeopleвЂќ Administration, Legal and Social Circumstances 19 2. (Studies in early modern German history) Includes bibliographical references (p. вЂњEvil PeopleвЂќ : a comparative study of witch hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier / Johannes Dillinger translated by Laura Stokes. Originally published in German as вЂњBГ¶se Leute.вЂќ Hexenverfolgungen in SchwГ¤bischГ–sterreich und Kurtrier im Vergleich, В© 1999 by Paulinus Verlag / Spee, Trier, Germany University of Virginia Press Translation and new material В© 2009 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper First published 2009 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Dillinger, Johannes. JOHANNES DILLINGER Translated by Laura Stokes вЂњEvil PeopleвЂќ A Comparative Study of Witch Hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier Studies in Early Modern German History H.

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