Case file · Witch trials
Val Camonica witch burnings
In 1518 inquisitors in Val Camonica, then under Venice, burned some 60 to 80 people as witches said to meet on Monte Tonale; the Venetian Senate intervened to stop the trials.
1518 CE · 46.04, 10.34 · status: official
The sceptical view
Venice's own officials doubted the confessions and curbed the inquisitors.