Kramer’s main job was finding religious heretics, but around 1480 he became obsessed with the idea of witchcraft and went somewhat rogue. In the autumn of 1484, he travelled to Ravensburg in southern Germany, where he wasted no time in ardently preaching the dangers of demonic witchcraft. In a matter of days, he was presiding over the trials of eight women, who were found to be witches. As the women burned at the stake, Kramer realized he’d hit something big – witch finding. Unfortunately for him, there was an immediate roadblock – Kramer might have said that killing the eight accused witches
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