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Dutch physician, occultist and demonologist

Weyer

Johannes Wier was a Dutch physician who was among the first to publish a thorough treatise against the trials and persecution of people accused of witchcraft.

His most influential work is De Praestigiis Daemonum et Incantationibus ac Venificiis.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Johann Jaritz (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.