Malleus Maleficarum Latin for “The Hammer of Witches” – Hexenhammer in German. A witch- hunt manual in 1486 was written by Heinrich Kramer. He was one of the (inquisitor of the
Catholic Church) along with Jacob Sprenger. Sprenger is also often attributed as an author
basically saying that witchcraft did exist. It was submitted to the University on May 9, 1487 for
endorsement. In 1490 this book was banned by Pope Paul IV.
By the 15th century witchcraft had resurfaced and had its penalties, the Malleus was used as a
judicial casebook for the detection and persecution of witches. It served as a guidebook and
was designed to aid them in the identification,persecution,and the deaths of witches. It 's a way
to tell the marks of witches.
Maleficarum
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If you do not know the history, how will you
know what happened to all those poor people, what made people be so cruel?
You need to know the history the true meaning of everything in order to fully understand what
witches or not witches went through just because people thought in their minds that they were
witches. Those burned are mostly male witches of the sort described. There be half the city
implicated for already professors, lawstudents, pastors, canons, vicars, and monks have here
been arrested and burned. It is a book that is written to help bring out the fact that witchcraft
did exist. They burned and tortured people to the confession was reviled, then they killed them
it was an awful time to live in. People were scared that they would be next to be called a witch
a lot of people died who didn 't need to.
If a witch confessed to quickly was deemed to be abandoned by the devil. If she did not and
kept their “stubborn silence” was still protected by the devil and was more bound to the devil.
Torture was essentially and exorcism. A witch had to confessed on her own or she couldn 't be
execute. Once she confussed they where turned over to secular authorities who had no