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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.
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.
Short stories about witches and witchcraft (9 P) Pages in category "Witchcraft in written fiction" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
Modern versus fictional witches "In general, when people talk about witchcraft as we see it in horror films or supernatural TV series, which often doesn't really bear much resemblance to the ...
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.
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 ...
Disney's first animated feature film, based on the Grimm fairy tale, is a classic every child should watch. It tells the story of a jealous queen who turns herself into a witch to kill her ...
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.