Malleus Maleficarum | Free Book
Heinrich Kramer, James Sprenger
First written in 1486 by zealous Inquisitors of the Catholic Church,
"The Witch Hammer" came to be the witch-hunting handbook of the
fifteenth century. Its main purpose was to refute doubts of the
existence of witchcraft, though it proceeds to prove women more
susceptible than men, as well as to outline procedures that allowed
law enforcers to discover and convict witches. Because of the papal
bull acknowledging the validity of this previously pagan belief, the
persecution of alleged witches became widespread and brutal with the
printing of "Malleus Maleficarum" on the recently invented printing
press. Though some of the claims in this work are perhaps humorous to
the modern reader, countless individuals lost their lives due to the
prevalence of this book throughout late Medieval Europe, and today it
can serve as a both a collection of superstitious folklore and a
warning against mass hysteria and ignorance.
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