" History of the Inquisition " French author A. Arnoux introduces us into the gloomy world of medieval " witch persecutions ", under the arches of courts, into an atmosphere of torture and horror. Using documents from the Vatican archives, the author shows the compulsion of any self-accusations in the face of the inquiry procedure. However, maybe many of the accused were witches and witches, and the Inquisitor Fathers had to wage a fierce struggle with the devil himself? The modern reader will have to figure it all out.