print email comment close A Brief History of Witchcraft Persecutions Before Salem URL: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/witchhistory.html Description: Brief, illustrated descriptions of historical events involving early witchcraft persecution, such as arguments by St. Augustine that witchcraft is an impossibility (c. 420), Thomas Aquinas' arguments "that demons exist that try to lead people into temptation" (1273), and Pope Innocent VIII and "Malleus Maleficarum" ("Hammer of Witches," 1484). Part of a larger project on the Salem Witch Trials, by a law professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law. Author: Linder, Douglas Publisher: University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law LII Database Information: Record 24975 created by Jennifer English on 11/20/2007 Last modification on 02/05/2008 Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 03/01/2008 Published: 11/29/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24975