The book "Witches and Witchcraft" presents the results of scientific research of the historian, philologist, translator Nikolai Vasilyevich Speransky (1861-1921), collected by him during his stay abroad (1890-1905), gives an overview of the history of the church and education in Western Europe. Based on huge factual material (demonological works, treatises on magic and occultism, documents of the Inquisition, oral sources, etc.), the author shows the "untimely" processes of witches in medieval Europe. The study precedes a brief review of... "this endless drama, filled with scenes of such untold, inexpressible, immense torment, torment and despair from the persecuted and such superstition, stupidity and atrocity from the persecutors that nothing can be compared with this in cruelty in the annals of European nations."