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Arkadiusz Czwołek. How they used to hunt for witches in Jan Stanislaŭ Sapieha’s estates

The new archival documents give a detailed account of one investigation of a case of a sorcery taking place in estates of the Grand Marshal of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Jan Stanislaŭ Sapieha in 1631. All stages and procedures of investigation of such kind of cases in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of the 16th and 17th centuries are precisely and consecutive described. Due to that fact the texts presented could be considered a very rare source, well preserved to our times.