Quotes from book
Cautio Criminalis

Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld
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“The tortured say yes to everything, and because they do not dare to withdraw, they must seal everything with death.”

Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld book Cautio Criminalis

Cautio Criminalis, or: Legal concerns about the witch trials. German by Joachim-Friedrich Ritter. Böhlaus Nachf. Weimar 1939. page 93

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