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For centuries, witches were put on trial. This book puts their accusers on trial.
Historians estimate that 40,000 to 60,000 people were executed during Europe’s witch hunts. Thousands more were imprisoned and tortured. The accused were blamed for storms, sickness, failed harvests, and dead livestock.
But where was the evidence that they had supernatural powers? The trials, the torture, and the executions are all documented. The magic never was.
In Who Was Really Evil?, Wayne C. Robinson examines the history of witchcraft accusations, how Satan developed in Christian theology, and the documented actions of the religious and political authorities who persecuted people in the name of fighting evil.
Inside the book
- How Satan became Christianity’s ultimate enemy
- How witchcraft became linked to devil worship
- The Malleus Maleficarum and the rise of organized witch hunts
- Forced confessions, spectral evidence, and the Salem trials
- Catholic and Protestant involvement in the persecutions
- The central question: should evil be judged by accusations, or by documented harm?
Robinson’s own journey began while leading fall foliage tours in Salem, Massachusetts. A former Christian and U.S. Navy veteran journalist, he set out to examine the evidence for himself. You may agree with his conclusions, or you may not. Either way, the historical questions deserve serious examination.