ABSTRACT
Table I shows the number of the accused witches and the types of sentences per decades during the lB4 years of Debrecen witch-hunting.
As for the periodicity of the tr ials, it seems that Debrecen wi tchhunting coincided more or less with the phases of the national one beginning in the 1520-70s, increasing from the 1620-30s on and reaching its peak between the 16BOs and the 1750s. 9 After the Transylvanian Kolozsvar, Debrecen was the second Hungarian city that began to prosecute its "witches" On 1575).
