According to Kramer's testimony, she avoided attending his sermons in Innsbruck and spoke out against them: When asked why she asserted that [my interpretation of] Church doctrine was heretical, she responded that I had only preached against ‘unhulen’ [‘witches’] and added that I had given the method of striking a pail of milk in order to gain knowledge of a sorceress who had taken milk from cows.
The knight had been afflicted by illness, and had been warned by his Italian doctor not to keep visiting Helena Scheuberin, wife of a prosperous burgher, to avoid getting killed.
[4] The defendants' lawyer raised procedural objections, which the commissary general, representing Bishop Golser, upheld.
Exchanged letters show Bishop of Brixen Georg Golser, whose diocese contained Innsbruck, commanding Kramer to leave the city.
He returned to Cologne and wrote a treatise on witchcraft that became the Malleus Maleficarum, an instruction guide for identifying witches.