Slightly off-topic I'm afraid, but I'm amazed that certain myths about the European witch-trials are being still being circulated.

Hundreds of thousands of supposed witches—mostly women—were executed.

This statement is dodgy. An excellent article to check out is Recent Developments in the Study of The Great European Witch Hunt by Jenny Gibbons:

To date, less than 15,000 definite executions have been discovered in all of Europe and America combined.

That's certainly not hundreds of thousands. And on the misogynistic angle on:

Overall, approximately 75% -80% of the accused were women. However this percentage varied dramatically. In several of the Scandinavian countries, equal numbers of men and women were accused. In Iceland over 90% of the accused were men. Central Europe killed the most witches, and it killed many more women than men -- this is why the overall percentages are so badly skewed.