Insanity and hysteria are what come to mind as one reads this historical document on witchcraft written by two friars, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger (though his contribution is questionable), in the 1400s. The basic premise is that witches are real, witchcraft is real and demons are real. People who do not believe that those concepts actually exist are heretical or support witchcraft. Anyone convicted of witchcraft (usually females) can be tortured in order to gain admittance of crimes and the victims are often times put to death. In and among this nonsense is more nonsense: witches can change into animals (p. 100), sacrifice unbaptized babies (p.120) and mate with incubi. Mind you, I'm barely into the text itself as Christopher S. Mackay provides a very thorough and enlightening introduction. This fictional conspiracy reminds me a lot of Alex Jones, whose world view I can't even begin to comprehend and his own imagination scares himself. Unfortunately, Kramer and Sprenger's imagination ended the lives of about 60,000 people (https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/the-hammer-of-the-witches.aspx). Lastly, almost a hundred years after this was published, King James came out with his own book on witchcraft: [b:The Demonology of King James I: Includes the Original Text of Daemonologie and News from Scotland|16468192|The Demonology of King James I Includes the Original Text of Daemonologie and News from Scotland|Donald Tyson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1468230355l/16468192._SY75_.jpg|16352161].