Weekly Witch: A Seventeenth Century Polish Satire – Blame the Witches
Krzysztof Opaliński was a magnate intellectual, whose involvement in the witchcraft persecution was multifaceted. He is a figure to whom I shall return in further posts, as I describe the letters between he and his brother concerning a witchcraft case in one of his estates. However, in his Satyry, ‘Satires’, the noble heavily criticized the state…