In Fiction
Otakar Vávra's film Kladivo na čarodějnice (Malleus Maleficarum, also translated as Witches' Hammer or Witchhammer, 1969) is based on Václav Kaplický’s book Kladivo na čarodějnice (1963), a novel about witch trials in Northern Moravia during the 1670s.
Read more about this topic: Northern Moravia Witch Trials
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“... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.”
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