Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs and Disease

Long before the political mass-murders witnessed in the present century, western Europe experienced another kind of holocaust-the witch, hunts of the early modern period. Condemned of flying through the air, Changing into animals, and worshipping the Devil, over a hundred thousand people were brutally tortured, systematically maimed and burned alive. Why did these persecutions take place? Was it superstition, irrationality, or mass delusion that led to the witch-hunts? This study seeks expl...