Template:Are You Sure/February 23

• ... that physician and occultist Johann Weyer published works on demons, magic, and witchcraft, in which he applied a skeptical medical view to reported wonders and supposed examples of magic or witchcraft, criticizing the Malleus Maleficarum and witch hunting by the Christian and Civil authorities, and that Weyer argued that the crime of witchcraft was literally impossible, and that anyone who confessed to the crime was likely to be suffering some mental disturbance?