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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.
In colloquial modern English, the word witch is particularly used for women. [36] A male practitioner of magic or witchcraft is more commonly called a 'wizard', or sometimes, 'warlock'. When the word witch is used to refer to a member of a neo-pagan tradition or religion (such as Wicca), it can refer to a person of any gender. [citation needed]
Pages in category "Witchcraft in written fiction" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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The Malleus Maleficarum, (Latin for 'Hammer of The Witches') was a witch-hunting manual written in 1486 by two German monks, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger. It was used by both Catholics and Protestants [ 88 ] for several hundred years, outlining how to identify a witch, what makes a woman more likely than a man to be a witch, how to put a ...
Other examples of villainous witches in literature include the White Witch from C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and the Grand High Witch from Roald Dahl's The Witches. Living Alone, published in 1919, uses the "witch heroine" as an agent in support of female liberation.
A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy, Book 1) A Discovery of Witches , the first book in the All Souls Trilogy , serves as the basis for season one of the TV show.
Witches were also often thought to be able to shapeshift into animals themselves, particularly cats and owls. [4]: 264 Witchcraft was blamed for many kinds of misfortune. By far the most common kind of harm attributed to witchcraft was illness or death suffered by adults, their children, or their animals.