"De la Demonomanie des Sorciers" (1580) may not be the most famous work of the great French state theoretician Jean Bodin (1529-1596), but it certainly is the most controversial. In it, he discusses the nature of witchcraft and gives a guide to the rigid prosecution of the crimen magiae. Although a genuinely legal work, the text has not been subjected to thoroug researched from a legal perspective. The study investigates the role and significance...