ABSTRACT
The witch-trials of the Transylvanian city of Kolozsvar are of special importance in Hungarian history. They are the first series of trials for which we possess documentation. According to the documents, between 1565 and 1593, nineteen witches were prosecuted here; thirteen were condemned to death by burning (six of these in 1584); the outcome of the rest of the trials is unknown (Komaromy 1910: 3-74). The fact that Kolo7.svar became the first centre of this new type of conflict is instructive in several respects. This city of about 8,000 inhabitants mainly Germanoriginally, but in this period becoming incJ;easingly dominated by a Hungarian majority - was the only Transylvanian city to witness spectacular economic growth and prosperity in the sixteenth century,
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