Status Updates From Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Dr...

His conclusion: a 'regime of terror' for 'social control'.
"But the fact that witches were being created by the very procedures employed to locate and obliterate them totally eluded the perplexed witch-hammerers."

"In Rottenburg, Germany, in 1530, authorities obtained confessions from three women suspected of witchcraft, who had resisted a total of 186 applications of the strappado, through the administration of a special potion... Likewise, an accused werewolf from Westphalia, who resisted twenty applications of torture, finally confessed after being forced to imbibe an intoxicating draught."

In his section on torture. Pretty detailed.
He's determined not to admit grounds/excuses/any reality to the accusations. He is against the 'mentalists' who seek a mental explanation -- even mental illness -- for what was confessed.

Forgot to mention that this is required for my Witch Hunts and Legal Anthropology Class.