With European temperatures beginning to plunge following the grand solar minimum cooling, if we look at the European Witch Trials, it is an exact match for temperature drops and number of trials. Also NOAA adjusts all ocean buoy data for last 20 years saying there was cold bias in the temperature measurements.

Media Purposely Confuses you About Mini Ice Age Intensifying
No, we aren’t heading into a ‘mini ice age’ https://theconversation.com/no-we-arent-heading-into-a-mini-ice-age-44677
Why is the sun going quiet? https://theconversation.com/why-is-the-sun-going-quiet-22155
What was the Maunder Minimum? New Perspectives on an Old Question http://www.historicalclimatology.com/blog/what-was-the-maunder-minimum-new-perspectives-on-an-old-question
Witchcraft, Weather and Economic Growth in Renaissance Europe http://ergotism.info/en/oster_weater_witches.pdf
A Brief History of Ice Ages and Warming http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html
Fresh doubt over global warming 'pause' http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38513740
Timeline on 1600’s http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/a0001225.html