An eight-year “Great Unrest” of these events in Sweden culminated in an unusually large one in Torsåker led by Lars Hornæus. A Carlo Ginzburg book details how the Italian Benandanti were impacted by these events. Several of these events began after Anne of Denmark travelled to Scotland. Johannes Junius, the mayor of Bamberg, wrote a letter to his daughter detailing the impact of these events, which Wolfgang Behringer’s research proposes arose as a result of the “Little Ice Age.” Heinrich Kramer received a papal bull authorizing him to instigate these events after publishing a treatise on them, the Malleus Maleficarum, which details methods of torturing people to induce confessions. For 10 points, Early Modern Europe saw a “craze” of what events that sought to prove people guilty of using magic? ■END■
ANSWER: witch trials [or witch hunts; accept the Early Modern witch craze; prompt on inquisitions by asking “targeting what people?”]
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