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The Malleus maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, translated with introductions, bibliography, and notes by Montague Summers

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The Malleus maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger

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translated with introductions, bibliography, and notes by Montague Summers

Dover books on the Orient, mysticism, and related areas

Approach this book with caution; it is soaked in human blood! Kramer and Sprenger, two Dominican friars, traveled throughout northern Germany, delving into Inquisition records, talking with accused witches, and attending Inquisition trials. First published in 1486, the text includes everything known at the time about cults, illicit sex, dealings with the devil, and more

DOVER BOOKS ON THE OCCULT; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION TO 1948 EDITION; INTRODUCTION TO 1928 EDITION; A NOTE UPON THE BIBLIOCRAPHY OF THE MALLEUS MALEFICARUM; THE BULL OF INNOCENT VIII, Innocent, Bishop, Servant of the servants of God, for an eternal remembrance.; THE FIRST PART TREATING OF THE THREE NECESSARY CONCOMITANTS OF WITCHCRAFT, WHICH ARE THE DEVIL, A WITCH, AND THE PERMISSION OF ALMIGHTY GOD, PART I; QUESTION I, Here beginneth auspiciously the first part of this work. Question the First.; Whether it be a Heresy to Maintain that Witches ExistQUESTION IIQUESTION III, Whether children can be generated by Incubi and Succubi.; QUESTION IV, By which Devils are the Operations of Incubus and Succubus Practised?; QUESTION V, What is the Source of the Increase of Works of Witchcraft? Whence comes it that the Practice of Witchcraft hath so notably increased?; Witchcraft is not caused by the Powers that Move the Stars.; Witchtraft does not operate from Human Malice alone.; That Witckcraft is not exercised and wrought by Voices and Words under a favouring influence of the Stars.; QUESTION VI, Concerning Witches who copulate with DevilsWhy it is that Women are chiefly addicted to Evil Superstitions.Why Superstition is chiefly found in Women.; What sort of Women are found to be above all Others Superstitious and Witches.; QUESTION VII, Whether Witches can Sway the Minds of Men to Love or Hatred.; The Method of Preaching to the People about Infatuate Love.; Here Follow the Resolutions of the Arguments.; QUESTION VIII, Whether Witches can hebetate the Powers of Ceneration or obstruct the Venereal Act.; Some Incidental Doubts on the subject of Copulation prevented by Evil Spells are made ClearQUESTION IX, Whether Witches may work some Prestidigitatory Illusion so that the Male Organ appears to be entirely removed and separate from the Body.How a Bewitchment can be Distinguished from a Natural Defect.; Solutions of the Arguments.; QUESTION X, Whether Witches can by some Glamour Change Men into Beasts.; Solutions of the Arguments.; What is to. be Thought of Wolves which sometimes Seize and Eat Men and Children out of Their Cradles: whether this also is a Glamour caused by WitchesQUESTION XI, That Witches who are Midwives in Various Ways Kill the Child Conceived in the Womb, and Procure an Abortion or if they do not this 0ffer New-born Children to Devils.; QUESTION XII, Whether the Permission of Almighty God is an Accompaniment of Witchcraft.; It is Explained with regard to the Divine Permission, that God would not make a Creature to be Naturally without SinQUESTION XIII, Herein is set forth the Question concerning the Two Divine Permissions which God justly allows, namely, that the Devil, the Author of all Evil, should Sin, and that our First Parents should Fall, from which Origins the Works of Witches are justly suffered to take place