Episode 1 – The Hammer of the Witches
“”Do not fight against these harmful spells. For you do not know what God wants with them. You do not know the greater divine plan behind it all.” – Martin Luther
““Everywhere they are punishing witches, who are multiply remarkably. Their outrages are terrible… Never before have people in Germany given themselves over to the Devil so completely… They send many out of this world with their devilish arts, excite storms and wreak terrible havoc among our countryfolk and other Christians. Nothing seems safe from their horrid wiles and power.” – Peter Canisius, after the 1563 persecutions
“if anyone, forgetting his Christian faith, sets up a pact with the Devil or has anything to do with him, regardless of whether he has harmed anyone by magic, he should be condemned to death by fire.” – the 1572 Criminal Constitutions in Electoral Saxony
This episode primarily made use of the following texts, among others:
Henricus Institoris and Jacob Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum, (1487)