ABSTRACT
Article II Witchcraft is a crime apart, both on account of its enormity, and because
it is usually committed at night and always secretly. Therefore the trial of this crime must be conducted in an extraordinary manner, and the usual
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Article III The judge must decide whether the presumptions and conjectures are
enough to warrant his committing the accused to prison; for we can give no certain rule as to this. Yet I shall always maintain that a person should always be imprisoned on the accusation of even only a single accomplice. For it has been noted that witches who have confessed have as a rule never laid information against any who were not of their brotherhood, or at least were not deeply suspected. In fact Binsfeld, Suffragan of Trèves, wrote that of a hundred witches he hardly found one who made false accusation against another.
