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Helena Scheuberin (fl. 1485) [1] [2] was an Austrian woman who stood trial accused of witchcraft in 1485. Her trial and acquittal led Heinrich Kramer to write Malleus Maleficarum, which was published two years later. Helena Scheuberin appears to have disagreed with the doctrine that was being espoused by Dominican inquisitors like Heinrich ...
The Malleus Maleficarum, [a] usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, [3] [b] is the best known treatise about witchcraft. [6] [7] It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer (under his Latinized name Henricus Institor) and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486.
Helena even disrupted one of his sermons "by loudly proclaiming that she believed Institor to be an evil man in league with the devil". [ 5 ] During her trial, as Kramer focused heavily on the sexuality of Scheuberin, he was accused by the bishop of having "presumed much that had not been proved".
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Written Testimony of American Civil Liberties Union Dennis Parker, Director, Racial Justice Project on behalf of the Washington Legislative Office