Excerpt from History of the German People After the Close of the Middle Ages, Vol. 16: General Moral and Religious Corruption Imperial Legislation Against Witchcraft Witch Persecution From the Time of the Church Schism to the Last Third of the Sixteenth Century Regulations of the Carolina on procedure against sorcerers Rules for the protection of the accused-the latter fallen out of use in most of the law-courts, 292-296. Significance of the displacement of the ancient indigenous mode of trial by the inquisitional process which handed over the accused to the caprice of the judges, 296-297. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.