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Urban Witch Trials
- Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 4, Number 1, Summer 2009
- pp. 82-89
- 10.1353/mrw.0.0124
- Article
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This essay compares witchcraft beliefs and witch-hunting structures in urban areas of the early modern German empire and rural areas. It concludes that, although urban witch hunts certainly did occur, overall witchcraft and the persecution of witches was a predominantly rural phenomenon.