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Contemporary execution lists survive for parts of the Wurzburg episode, but the trials ran across the city, the surrounding prince-bishopric and its wider territory, and different surviving lists count these differently; the records are incomplete and no modern historian has reconciled them into a single agreed total, unlike the single well documented parish record behind the Torsaker toll or the court record behind Salem's.
What would resolve this A systematic reconciliation of the surviving city, diocesan and territorial execution lists against one agreed boundary for what counts as the Wurzburg trials, of the kind regional archival historians have already carried out for other German territories.
OpenEarly modern German history; archival history of the witch trialsWolfgang Behringer, Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History
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No execution total is established for the Würzburg Witch Trials because surviving lists cover the city, the diocese and the wider territory inconsistently.
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