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Malleus Maleficarum (1486), translated by Montague Summers (1928) – English-language translation hosted on the Internet Sacred Text Archive. Hans Peter Broedel The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft: Theology and Popular Belief , (2003), with English-language translations, hosted at OAPEN doi : 10.7765/9781526137814 ISBN ...
Ulrich Molitor (also Molitoris) (c. 1442 – before 23 December 1507) was a lawyer who wrote a treatise offering qualified support, joined to clarifications and methodological critiques derived Canon Law, to the recent witch-phobic efforts by Heinrich Kramer represented in Krämer's then-recently-published manual for the interrogation and prosecution of witchcraft Malleus Maleficarum.
Most of the answers came from religious beliefs.Today, the Malleus Maleficarum is widely referred to as evidence of the misogynistic nature of witch trials. [1] The text shows the power the male audience had over women, and the hopelessness women faced when it came to witch accusations.
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. Malleus Maleficarum is split up into three different sections, each individual section addressing an aspect of witches and their culture ...
With his widely distributed book Malleus Maleficarum (1487), which describes witchcraft and endorses detailed processes for the extermination of witches, he was instrumental in establishing the period of witch trials in the early modern period. Professor Malcolm Gaskill has described Kramer as a "superstitious psychopath." [2] [3]
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.
The book proclaimed that “evils which are performed by witches exceed all other sin which God has ever permitted to be done.…”. [9] The Malleus Maleficarum adamantly pushed its views on the threat of witches in society. The text boldly claims that "[witches] exist" and "to defend the opposite view steadfastly is altogether heretical" [10]
Compendium Maleficarum is a witch-hunter's manual written in Latin by Francesco Maria Guazzo, and published in Milan (present-day Italy) in 1608. [ 1 ] It discusses witches' pacts with the devil , and detailed descriptions of witches’ powers and poisons.