“One should hasten to put such witches to death.”

Statement of 20 August 1538; as quoted in Conversations With Martin Luther (1915), translated and edited by Preserved Smith and Herbert Percival Gallinger, p. 163

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seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483–1546

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