We Now Know What May Have Caused the #SalemWitchTrials

- A new study purports to have discovered the source of the “#WitchCraze” that led to witch hunts across Europe and America in the 15th through 17th centuries.

- New ideas about #Witches—casting them as a “conspiratorial activity against godly society” — came from a #Book called #MalleusMaleficarum

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https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a62546301/witch-trials-cause