Daemonolatreiae Libri Tres, by Nicholas Rémy, 1596.
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Nicholas Rémy (1530-1616). A powerful judge and privy councilor to Duke Charles III of Lorraine, Rémy began trying people for witchcraft in earnest in 1582 following the death of his eldest son, whom he believed to be the victim of a curse put on him by a local beggar woman subsequently tried by Rémy and executed. On retiring Rémy wrote the present work based on his extensive trial notes from the previous fifteen years, a period in which, he boasts, he put to death 900 people. It became one of the most influential witch-hunting manuals of the period; four editions had been published by 1598, including a translation into German.