Brigade of Witch-Hunters

"...commanded the head of his army to form a Brigade of Witch-Hunters, and issued them with a pack of ferocious black hounds"

- The Brigade of Witch Hunters The Brigade of Witch-Hunters is a fictional organisation from the tale Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump, written by Beedle the Bard and included in The Tales of Beedle the Bard.

Creation
"... there lived a foolish king who decided that he alone should have the power of magic."

- The King's description

According to the tale, this organisation was created a long time ago by a Muggle King of a very far away land who wanted to keep all the magic in the world for himself. In order to do so, he needed to gather all the wizards and witches in the world, so he formed the Brigade and gave them packs of wild dogs. It is known that there was a Captain of the Brigade of Witch-Hunters, and that one of the Brigade's hounds was named Sabre and died when eating a poisonous toadstool.

"If you fail to help me, I shall denounce you as a witch, and it will be you who is torn apart by the King's hounds!"

- The Charlatan

When the charlatan was suspected by the King being a fraud due to Babbitty's laughing when the charlatan pretended to teach the King magic in return for gold, the charlatan blackmailed Babbitty into helping him by threatening to denounce her as a witch and hand her over to the Brigade of Witch-Hunters, whereupon she would have been torn apart by the hounds.

Dissolved
"At that, the King fell to his knees too, and told that he would issue a proclamation at once, protecting all the witches and wizards of the kingdom, and allowing to practise their magic in peace"

- The End of the Brigade

The Brigade was likely dissolved when the King's washerwoman, Babbitty, threatened him that he would suffer a great pain (presumably the Cruciatus Curse) if another witch or wizard was harmed because of his actions.

Appearances

 * The Tales of Beedle the Bard