Talk:Witch trials in Early Modern Europe

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[edit] Protests

I have added to this section a number of references containing the information cited in the list of protests which follows. --Taiwan boi (talk) 01:49, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Germany: Weather and Panic

I added this section after I conducted research and discovered that it had been a consistent topic among noted scholars on early modern Europe (i.e. Midelfort, Monter and Behringer). It is ment to only be brief and historiographical in a nature and feel it fills in a small gap in the rest of the article. - HChundak —Preceding unsigned comment added by HChundak (talk • contribs) 07:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nachman Ben-Yehuda

Cut from the article:

Nachman Ben-Yehuda in 1980 claimed that "From the early decades of the 14th century until 1650, continental Eurpeans executed between 200,000 and 500,000 witches" [The European Witch Craze of the 14th to 17th Centuries: A Sociologist's Perspective Nachman Ben-Yehuda The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 86, No. 1 (Jul., 1980), pp. 1-31 Publisher: The University of Chicago Press]

the sentence cited is part of the abstract given right at the start of the article. No source whatsoever is provided, nor is any mention made of estimates of the number executed in the article body. Judging from his Wikipedia article, Ben-Yehuda also seems to be somewhat on the lunatic fringe. This is not a good source for a scholarly estimate of the number executed (1980. No source. Conspiracy theorist). dab (𒁳) 18:18, 7 May 2008 (UTC)