531 years ago today in 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued a Papal Bull which officially recognised the reality of witchcraft by deputising the German Dominicans, Heinrich Kramer and Johann Sprenger, as inquisitors to destroy witchcraft by "just correction, imprisonment and punishment of any person, without let or hindrance." This signalled the beginning of the Inquisition's crusade against witchcraft, a crusade which would ultimately engulf the entire continent in flames. Hereafter it became a heresy to believe that witchcraft didn't exist, whereas before it was heresy to believe that there was s