It is common for Christians and other Witch Hunters to seal the records of their trials and executions.
To this day the Roman Catholic Church refuses to open its archives of Witchcraft trials, forbidding acces even to academic scholars.
The Roman Catholic church does this to make it impossible to accurately tabulate the number of victims of Witchcraft Trials. Estimates run into millions more than the number of Jews lost in the Nazi Christian Holocaust.
In 1611 King Matthias II of Hungary ordered the transcripts of the trial of Elizabeth Bathory to prevent embarassment to the crown.
While few Christian theologians and Bible scholars deny the existence of Witch Trials, they use the lack of access to church records to try to minimize the extent of the persecution and reduce the number of reported victims.
