These witch trials resulted in the deaths of 126 people; there were 122 executions, and four died during torture.
The trials belonged to the great wave of witch-hunting that took place in southwestern Germany during the Thirty Years' War.
In 1627, a group of women were arrested and interrogated, but they were released, because there were no knowledge on how to conduct a witch trials in Mergentheim.
In July 1628, the tailor Velltin Beckh complained that his sons (age 12, 14 and 15) had been expelled without stated reason.
This method, was the case in Bamberg after which it was made, allowed the witch trial to expand rapidly.