Tractatus de confessionibus maleficorum et sagarum

The Tractatus de confessionibus maleficorum et sagarum is Peter Binsfeld's 1589 treatise, written by the suffragan bishop of Trier to defend confessions extracted under torture in witch trials, and it is the primary text in which the pairing of the seven capital vices with named demonic figures first appears in the form still repeated today. As the originating primary text it is the correct source for that pairing and for the date it entered the written record. Its limit is that it is a work of sixteenth century demonology defending a practice now universally condemned, so the atlas cites it strictly as a fact about what was written and when, in the sixteenth century, never as an endorsement of the theology or the practice it defends.