Article: 26737 of alt.pagan
From: IMC@vax2.utulsa.edu (I. Marc Carlson)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: re: Witch Burning List?
Date: 1 Nov 1994 10:06:02 -0600

This isn't precisely what you asked for, but I thought since I'd sent it else
where, I'd sent it here as well:
Numbers of People *tried* in Witchtrials (1300-1700)
	All dates give refer to dates of the trials for those areas.  Where
recorded numbers have been unspecific 3 estimates have been given: the minimum
of 2 required to make the plural "witches", an estimate of 13 and a (to me)
maximum probable estimate of 100 per trial (since trials that large are
generally noteworthy enough to be better documented. 
	In direct contradiction to that statement, however, the trial of the
Templars is NOT included in the figures listed below, although charged with
witchcraft, since the figures for the trials vary so much. However, included
below are 2 Popes, 7 Bishops & Cardinals, many failed Papal Assassins, Joan
of Arc, several cross dressers, 12 women who weren't tried, but simply lynched
by their neighbors, Anne Bolyne, the Spanish Inquisition's direct victims, etc.
 And lest I forget, one woman who actually WAS charged for consorting with the
spirits of Diana, Oriente, and Erodiade (in 1390). 
	Note that some of these trials may be redundant (referring to the same
trial or defendant in more than one place) but this can not be clearly
determined.  In cases where things and numbers were unclear I opted to err
on the side of increasing the number of victims as far as seems reasonable.
These estimates are noted.

Marc
IMC@Vax2.utulsa.edu

England, Essex (1560-1680)     290  92.1% Women
England, Home Circuit (1552-1722)     456  89% Women; 23.9% executed.
England, York (1567-1640)     117
Scotland (1510-1727)     1739 86% Women;
New England (1645-1662)     58  75% Women; 36.6 executed
New England, Native Americans - Unspecified Number (1645-1662)
	*Minimum Estimate:       2
	*"Coven-sized" Est.:    13
        *Estimate of 100:      100
New England (1663-1692)     250+ arrests; 19 executed, 3 died in prison, 1 under torture.
New France  (    -1700) *3  (The MAXimum estimated in the sources I had.  Canada it seemed wasn't
         as interested in trying people as othr places were)
Jura (1365-1683)     1365 77.7% Women
Alsace (1640-1695)     94
Castillian Inquisition (1540-1685)     456  71.1% Women
Belgium, Namur County (1509-1646)     366  92.1% Women
France, Nord (1542-1679)     260  81.2% Women
Ajoie (1574-1659)     150 95% Women
St. Ursanne (1571-1670)     40  95% Women
Neuchatel (1568-1675)     318 81% Women
Montebeliard (1554-1661)     71  86% Women
Besancon (1584-1660)     38  84% Women
Saarland (1575-1632)     439 72% Women
Nassau-Dillenburg (1629-1659)     231 88% Women
Franche-comte, Parlament (1599-1668)     181  75% Women; 39.8% Actually executed.
Finland, Ostrobothnia (1665-1684)     152  78.3% Women
Switzerland, Geneva (1527-1681)     285  75% Women; 22% Actually executed.
Switzerland, Solothurn (1541-1720)     137  81% Women  
Germany, Southwest (1562-1684)     1288 81.5% Women
Venetian Inquisition (1552-1722)     549  78.3% Women
"Europe" (1300-1500)
     (Based on notes and chronology in Kieckhefer)
     Total Trials Specified:
	Executed:  1398
	Banished:    41
	Specifically Aquitted:  37
	Tried for Defamation (Falsely accusing someone of Witchcraft): 18
	Consorting with Witches: 1
	Other trials, outcome unclear: 1434
     Total Trials, unspecified number or outcome:  57
	*Minimum estimated average for unspecified trials: 2 -> 114
	*Coven-sized estimate for unspecified trials: 13     -> 741
	*Estimated 100 per unspecified trial:                -> 5700
     Total Trials (1300-1500, based on estimates):
	*Minimum:            3043
	*Coven-sized:        3670
	*Estimated 100 per:  8629
"Europe" Fudge factor (based on 1300-1500 figures) (1500-1550)
	*Minimum:             761 
	*Coven-sized:         918
	*Estimated 100 per:  2157
Total:
	*Minimum:          13,139
	*Coven-sized:      13,934
	*Estimated 100 per:20,219


Rounded up to 14,000 to 23,000 between 1300 and 1700.

Sources Include:

Kieckhefer, Richard.  European witch trials, their foundations in popular and 
	learned culture, 1300-1500.  Berkeley: University of California Press,
	1976.
Nemec, Jaroslav.  Witchcraft and medicine, 1484-1793, published in conjunction
	with an exhibit at the National Library of Medicine, March 25-July 19,
	1974.
Levack, Brian P.  Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology. vols 5-8.
	New York: Garland Pub., 1992
Rosenthal, Bernard.  Salem story, reading the witch trials of 1692
	Cambridge [England], New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.