The Malleus MaleficarumAlso 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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... Sort of Infirmity , generally Ills of the Graver Kind 134 Chapter XII . Of the Way how in Particular they Afflict Men with Other Like Infirmities 137 Chapter XIII . Chapter VIII . How Witch Midwives commit most Horrid Crimes when they ...
... Sort of Infirmity , generally Ills of the Graver Kind 134 Chapter XII . Of the Way how in Particular they Afflict Men with Other Like Infirmities 137 Chapter XIII . Chapter VIII . How Witch Midwives commit most Horrid Crimes when they ...
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... sort of ignorance may excuse him we shall very shortly proceed to explain . From what has been already said we draw the following conclusion : It is a most certain and most Catholic opinion that there are sorcerers and witches who by ...
... sort of ignorance may excuse him we shall very shortly proceed to explain . From what has been already said we draw the following conclusion : It is a most certain and most Catholic opinion that there are sorcerers and witches who by ...
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... sort might be discussed here , but for the sake of conciseness we will not discuss them in any further detail . All this is borne out by the commen- tators upon the Psalm , Qui timent te uidebunt me . * There is a great power in the ...
... sort might be discussed here , but for the sake of conciseness we will not discuss them in any further detail . All this is borne out by the commen- tators upon the Psalm , Qui timent te uidebunt me . * There is a great power in the ...
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... sort of seed , and can by working upon them broadcast various species . See also the gloss on those words ( Pharao called ) . And again in Genesis vi the gloss makes two com- ments on the words : And the sons of God saw the daughters of ...
... sort of seed , and can by working upon them broadcast various species . See also the gloss on those words ( Pharao called ) . And again in Genesis vi the gloss makes two com- ments on the words : And the sons of God saw the daughters of ...
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Contents
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Question IV | 28 |
Question VI | 41 |
Question IX | 58 |
Question XII | 66 |
availeth not at | 89 |
RELATING TO THE JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS IN BOTH THE ECCLESIASTICAL | 194 |
QUESTION I | 205 |
Question VII | 213 |
Question XIII | 222 |
Of the fit Time and of the Method of the Second | 230 |
Question XIX | 236 |
Question XXII | 242 |
Question XXIV | 246 |
Of the Way whereby a Formal Pact with Evil | 99 |
Chapter IV | 109 |
Chapter I | 164 |
Question XXIX | 257 |
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Page 76 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Page 139 - Just to think of it sets me shivering from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet.
Page 36 - The heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord; whithersoever He will He shall turn it
Page 80 - God am a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments.
Page 186 - And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief : for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove ; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Page 25 - And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
Page 179 - And he said unto him, Touching the heart and the liver, if a devil or an evil spirit trouble any, we must make a smoke thereof before the man or the woman, and the party shall be no more vexed. As for the gall, it is good to anoint a man that hath whiteness in his eyes, and he shall be healed.
Page 43 - A backbiting tongue hath disquieted many, And driven them from nation to nation: Strong cities hath it pulled down, And overthrown the houses of great men.
Page 44 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband : else were your children unclean ; but now are they holy.
Page 53 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.