Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 06/Chapter 2

Locations

 * Japan
 * Tokyo
 * Shibuya

Cultural References

 * The reference to witches controlling the winds to shake royal ships is likely a reference to the 1590 and, both involving accusations of witchcraft being used to produce  that impeded and threatened  on his return voyage from Copenhagen to Scotland after marrying , with several ships sinking in storms. Numerous individuals were implicated, confessions extracted under torture, and many burnt at the stake. The king's involvement in the witch trial would later influence his writing of the .
 * One noted figure among the accused witches was, a Scottish midwife who was the eldest of one accused group, who according to the , allegedly confessed (following torture) to producing the storm and contrary winds that resulted in a fatal sinking and threatened the king with a charm made be sinking a dead cat, which her companions had attached the parts of a dead man to, into the sea.