Peter Binsfeld (
c. 1545 -
1598) was a Suffragan
Bishop of
Trier and a
witch-hunter[?] who wrote the treatise
De confessionibus maleficorum et sagarum (Trier,
1589). This work discussed the confessions of alleged
witches, and claimed that even if such confessions were produced by
torture, they should still be believed.