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This chapter deals with the temporal dimension of the persecution of male witches, this time drawing a chronological timeline rather than giving a statistical cross-section of the data. The chapter begins with a discussion of whether there were in fact peaks in the persecution of alleged male witches, and then looks into a theory on trials of male witches in the light of regional persecutions in territories with different denominations.
I am an honest man, a child of God…I am now a frightened man. I should not be driven away from God. On the Day of Judgment I want to prove to God that I am not a witch.
(Statement made by Michael Heisch at his trial in Esslingen in 1603; he was later executed as a male witch)
The devil makes the same pact with the witches and the sorcerers…
(Statement of the Catholic suffragan bishop of Bamberg, Dr. Jacob Feucht, 1570)
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H. Vogel, Der groβe Schongauer Hexenprozeβ und seine Opfer, 1589–1592 (Schongau 1989), pp. 56–68.
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Schulte, R. (2009). Witch-hunts and the Male Witch: A Chronology. In: Man as Witch. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230240742_4
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