Big organisations like the church.
"The questionnaire began simply. What, asked Q1, “is her name”?

It was followed by Q2: “When was she born?” Then, because witches can be tricky, the questions on this 17th-century form took a tougher turn.
When, asked Q28, did she first keep “the company of the evil enemy”? There were queries on whether she “did help exhume children” (Q71) or (Q75) shape-shifted.



Questionnaires have always been a trial: in early-modern Europe, more literally so than later."