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The Malleus Maleficarum

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Cosimo, Inc., Apr 1, 2007 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 292 pages
Also known as "The Witch Hammer," The Malleus Maleficarum was a handbook for hunting and punishing witches-written by Inquisitors HEINRICH KRAMER (c. 1430-1505), an Alsatian clergyman, and JAMES SPRENGER (c. 1436-1494), a Swiss monk-to assist the Inquisition and Church in exterminating undesirables. Mostly a compilation of superstition and folklore, the book was taken very seriously at the time it was written in the 15th century and became a kind of spiritual law book used by judges to determine the guilt of the accused. While some of the articles covered in "The Witch Hammer" are humorous to modern audiences, they were a matter of life and death in the mid-1400's. Anyone interested in religion, the Inquisition, or the witch hunts that ravaged Europe will find this 1928 translation, by MONTAGUE SUMMERS (1880-1948), an unbelievable and enlightening read.
  

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Malleus Maleficarum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cover of the seventh Cologne edition of the Malleus Maleficarum, 1520 (from the University of Sydney Library). The Latin title is "MALLEUS MALEFICARUM, ...
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Malleus Maleficarum
Unabridged online republication of the 1928 edition. Introduction to the 1948 edition is also included. Translation, notes, and two introductions by ...
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Malleus Maleficarum: Information and Much More from Answers.com
Malleus Maleficarum The most authoritative and influential sourcebook for inquisitors, judges, and magistrates in the great witchcraft persecutions.
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Tobin's Spirit Guide: Malleus Maleficarum, The Hammer of the Witches
The Malleus Maleficarum was written by Heinrich Kramer (Latinized Heinrich Institoris) and Jacob Sprenger in 1486. However, most modern scholars believe ...
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Hexenhammer (De Malleus Maleficarum) thread in IMEEM =~#axMinistry ...
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A brief look at the Hammer of the witches or the dreaded "Malleus Maleficarum" Christian Pagan Hammer Witches Witch.
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JSTOR: Milton and Malleus Maleficarum
118 MODERN LANGUAGE NOTES, FEBRUARY, 1945 MILTON AND MALLEUS MALEFICARUM The more one reads in medieval and Renaissance scientific lore, the more one learns ...
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NYSL Sharp Collection: Malleus Maleficarum (1580) by Heinrich ...
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Broedel, Hans Peter “The Malleus Maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft. Theology and popular belief”. Manchester University Press, Manchester UK, ...
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About the author (2007)

Montague Summers was considered one of the early twentieth century's foremost experts in the occult.

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TitleThe Malleus Maleficarum
Cosimo classics history
AuthorsHeinrich Kramer, James Sprenger
Translated byMontague Summers
Editionreprint
PublisherCosimo, Inc., 2007
ISBN1602063842, 9781602063846
Length292 pages
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Body, Mind & Spirit / Occultism
Religion / Demonology & Satanism
Religion / Fundamentalism
  
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