ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book outlines how the media helped to connect political demonology and witch-hunting, focusing on the demonologists’ urgent need to use the laboratory of the local courtroom to prove their thinking with demons. It comes to similar conclusions. In Italy, inquisitors and secular witch-hunters were convinced that witches bodily copulated with the Devil, the most intimate corporeal communication with demons. The book shows that, with transcribing, a text metamorphosed into a new piece of demonology since the author filtered in his own interpretation and his local knowledge. It points out that the tract was a treasure trove of narratives from demonology, since it included references to Catholic and Protestant promoters of witch trials and adversaries to them.
