The Indirect Impacts of the Reformation on Witch Hunting

With printing and witch trials, you can print witch hunting manuals in enormous numbers. So the ability to conceptualize a particular idea of what a witch looks like when you combine that with kind of increased religious surveillance is key. People are just taking more note of what their neighbors are doing. And that's why you get so much more witch hunting in the 16th century,. especially the second half of the 16th Century than you do beforehand.