How many witches were killed in medieval times?

1st AnswerZero. Some people may say that witches don't exist but is for you to decide. The concept of medieval witches lead by people saying things like "Work of the Devil", Being left handed, etc. It lead to, murder of tens of thousands of women over the course of a few hundred years. 2nd AnswerWe cannot know how many people were killed as witches because records were not usually kept.

We do know that some were killed during the Middle Ages. Whether they actually were witches or not probably depends to some extent on how you define witchcraft. But there were people who did things that would qualify as witchcraft, such as cursing people. Whether the curses worked or not is probably a more important question.

The laws on witchcraft were varied from country to country and time to time. We think of witches burning at the stake, but that was not always what happened. The code of Charlemagne followed the lead of a pope who declared that witchcraft did not exist, and so it was illegal to execute a witch because it was illegal to execute a person who had not committed a crime. The Lombard legal code outlawed witchcraft, but punished it with a monetary fine, unless it could be proven that the witch actually killed someone with a curse. Furthermore, the code made it a felony to kill a witch without proper trial.

The burning of witches did not really become commonplace until the last century or two of the Middle Ages. It became far more prevalent during the Renaissance, when people were supposedly trying so hard to be rational. During the Renaissance, books on how to identify witches became available and superstitious rulers paid bounties for finding and executing witches.

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