How This Italian Town Came to Be Known as the 'City of Witches'

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The witches, in whose existence it was believed more by superstition than by evidence, were feared in Europe in the Middle Ages, where Christianity had been imposed as a dominant religion. Today, when Halloween Day is more occasion to go partying, dressing up or asking for sweets, it is difficult to understand everything that people of the 14th and 15th centuries did when belief in official sorcery and ecclesiastical documents condemned that pra…