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Let There Be No Question of Witches

1964; American Medical Association; Volume: 190; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/jama.1964.03070160077030

1538-3598

Max A. Goldzieher,

Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

To the Editor:— In the Aug 17, 1964, issue ofThe Journal(vol 189, adv p 78), the section From Other Pages describes the opposition of a 16th-century physician, Johann Weyer, to the prevailing attitudes about witchcraft. Actually, opposition came much earlier. It is not widely known that King Koloman, the Bookish, of the Arpad dynasty of Hungary, who ruled in the 12th century, disposed of a trial against a woman accused of witchcraft by the following sentence: "De strigis vero quae non sunt ne ulla questio fiat." [Let there be no question of witches, who do not exist.] To my knowledge, nobody has ever expressed a more clear-cut opinion on this subject.