Malleus Maleficarum

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For nearly three centuries Malleus Maleficarum (The Witches' Hammer) was the professional manual for witch hunters. This work by two of the most famous Inquisitors of the age is still a document of the forces of that era's beliefs. Under a Bull of Pope Innocent VIII, Kramer and Sprenger exposed the heresy of those who did not believe in witches and set forth the proper order of the world with devils, witches, and the will of God. Even if you do not believe in witchcraft, the world of 1484 did.

Shows the Malleus, a very well known and widely quoted medieval text, to be highly idiosyncratic, and unusual in its ideas, even among the texts of other contemporary witch-theorists.

Heinrich Kramer's 'The Hammer of Witches: Malleus Maleficarum' is a seminal work in the history of witchcraft trials and demonology. Written in the 15th century, this book serves as a manual for the detection, persecution, and execution of witches. Kramer, a German inquisitor, wrote 'The Hammer of Witches' during a period of widespread witch hunts and mass hysteria. His work was instrumental in shaping the witch trials that plagued Europe for centuries, making him a polarizing figure in the history of witchcraft persecution.