Malleus Maleficarum
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TextLondon The Pushkin Press 1948Description: xxi, 278p.; ill. [frontispiece]; bibliogContent type: - text
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1st translation into English.. Transl., and with intro., bibliog., and notes, by Montague Summers.. 1st ed. pub. by John Rodker, 1928.. 1st printed in this form 1948; limited to 2,000 copies.
Introduction. A note upon the bibliography. The bull of Innocent VIII. The first part - Treating of the three necessary concomitants of witchcraft which are the devil, a witch, and the permission of Almighty God. The second part - Treating of the methods by which the works of witchcraft are wrought and directed, and how they may be successfully annulled and dissolved. The third part - Relating to the judicial proceedings in both the ecclesiastical and civil courts against witches and indeed all heretics
'This famous work is of the greatest psychological and historical importance. Written by two Dominican Inquisitors, Henry Kramer and James Sprenger, who were accredited by Pope Innocent VIII in his bull Summis desiderantes, 9 December 1484, its encyclopaedic pages deal with every phase of witchcraft, and discuss in detail the most curious and even the most fantastic bypaths of this dark and esoteric cult....The influence of the Malleus was unbounded....The first edition of this great and terrible book was published at Cologne in 1489, and there were at least four issues before the end of the century.'
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