Precautions for

PROSECUTORS,

original: "Cautio Criminalis". This is the title of one of the most famous books ever written against the legal abuses of the witch trials.

❦ Or ❦

ON TRIALS

AGAINST WITCHES

original: "Contra Sagas". While "saga" literally means a wise-woman or fortune teller, in this 1631 context, it refers specifically to those accused of witchcraft.

A Book.

FOR MAGISTRATES

of Germany, necessary in this time,

Moreover, for

Counselors, and Confessors of Princes,

Inquisitors, Judges, Advocates, Confessors

of the accused, Preachers, and for others,

most useful to read.

BY THE AUTHOR

AN ANONYMOUS ORTHODOX THEOLOGIAN.

original: "Incerto Theologo Orthod." The book was published anonymously to protect the author, Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld, a Jesuit priest who had seen the horrors of the trials firsthand as a confessor to the condemned.

An ornate rectangular printer's device featuring a decorative border with foliage and human figures at the sides. In the center, a drafting compass (dividers) is positioned over a bouquet of three roses. The top of the image is partially obscured by dark, handwritten ink inscriptions.

AT RINTELN,

Printed by Peter Lucius, Academic Printer.

1631