This relatively moderate record of witch-hunting had much to do with the reluctance of the central government in Munich to support the trials, and especially not to allow any witch-hunts from getting out of control. Even more significantly, not more than 1,000 of those tried were executed. Although about 3,000 individuals were tried for witchcraft in the duchy over the course of about 100 years, the accused witches represented a relatively small percentage of the population, which hovered around 1.4 million people in 1600.

The duchy of Bavaria, which became an electorate in 1623, experienced a number of witch-hunts in the early modern period, but they were not as intense as those in the ecclesiastical territories in Franconia.