Whoo, boy, this movie. You guys are spot-on for pretty much everything, but I do offer this clarification: before the Malleus Maleficarum, a.k.a, the witch-hunter's guide book, found wide-spread use in the mid-to-late 16th century, most people prosecuted for witchcraft were men. So, on that account--and that one alone--this movie has some kind of verisimilitude.