Life at the start of the Little Ice Age

From the book "Unstoppable Global Warming every 1500 Years" by Singer and Avery (page 109):

Some Christians believed the horrible weather was a sign that Satan was gaining dominance over the Earth. Many blamed witches for their suffering. More than a thousand people were burned as witches between 1580 and 1620 just in Bern, Switzerland. The small town of Wiesensteig, Germany, burned sixty-three women in 1563. Johann Linden, canon of a church in Treves in 1590, explained the public mood in his diary: "Everybody thought the continuous crop failure was caused by witches from devilish hate, so the whole country stood up for their eradication."

Little Ice Age:

The phase between ad 1550 and 1850 when temperatures were generally lower in Europe and North America than they are at present, and glaciers advanced.