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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.
" (Generally translated into English as The Hammer of Witches which destroyeth Witches and their heresy as with a two-edged sword). [34] The most important and influential book which promoted the new heterodox view was the Malleus Maleficarum, published in 1487 by clergyman and German inquisitor Heinrich Kramer, accompanied by Jacobus Sprenger.
The most infamous and influential work of witch-hunting lore, Malleus Maleficarum (1486) does not contain the word sabbath (sabbatum). The first recorded English use of sabbath referring to sorcery was in 1660, in Francis Brooke's translation of Vincent Le Blanc 's book The World Surveyed : "Divers Sorcerers […] have confessed that in their ...
Malleus Maleficarum Calls The Clit “The Devil’s Teat” The Malleus Maleficarum, or The Witches’ Hammer, is published as a treatise on the persecution of witches. For over two centuries, it serves as the definitive guide to catching, identifying, torturing and killing witches.
The Malleus Maleficarum clearly and repeatedly asserts that women are more likely to participate in witchcraft or “sorcery” due to qualities that all and only women have. Never did during the witchcraft was a man accused or ever held accountable for false accusations.
Malleus Maleficarum in a 1669 edition.. Heinrich Kramer (c. 1430 – 1505, aged 74-75), also known under the Latinized name Henricus Institor, [a] [1] was a German churchman and inquisitor.
Malleus Maleficarum Calls The Clit “The Devil’s Teat” The Malleus Maleficarum, or The Witches’ Hammer, is published as a treatise on the persecution of witches. For over two centuries, it serves as the definitive guide to catching, identifying, torturing and killing witches.
Malleus maleficarum, 1669. Jacob Sprenger (also James, [1] 1436/1438 – 6 December 1495) was a Dominican inquisitor and theologian principally known for his association with a well-known guide for witch-hunters from 1486, Malleus Maleficarum.