Юрыдычны бок ведаўскіх працэсаў у Вялікім Княстве Літоўскім у XVI-XVIII стст

ENThe article deals with formation and implementation of antisorcerous legislation in the Great Duchy of Lithuania as well as with court practice of judicial proceedings on witchcraft. One can define three constituents of legislation: traditional notions, formal law of the state and legal as well as religious norms borrowed from Western Europe. Cases dealing with sorcery were submitted for consideration of various judicial institutions from kapa (people's court) to The Tribunal of GDL, each kind of courts having its pecularities. Trials were not of religious or political charachter. Underdevelopement of antisorcerous legislation indicates relatively modest scale of witch-hunt in the Great Duchy of Lithuania.