Malleus Maleficarum : (Hammer of Witches) Is a Detailed and Accurate Guide to How the Inquisition Ran a Witch Trial

By Institoris, Heinrich

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Title:	Malleus Maleficarum : (Hammer of Witches) Is a Detailed and Accurate Guide to How the Inquisition Ran a Witch Trial
Author:	Institoris, Heinrich
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Malleus Maleficarum, 1 -- translated by Montague Summers, 1 -- Introduction to the Malleus Maleficarum, 4 -- Introduction to the 1948 Version, 26 -- Malleus Maleficarum Part 1, 30 -- Question I. Whether the Belief that there are such Beings as Witches is so Essential a Part of the -- Catholic Faith that Obstinacy to maintain the Opposite Opinion manifestly savours of Heresy, 30 -- Question II. If it be in Accordance with the Catholic Faith to maintain that in Order to bring -- about some Effect of Magic, the Devil must intimately co?operate with the Witch, or whether -- one without the other, that is to say, the Devil without the Witch, or conversely, could produce -- such an Effect, 33 -- Question III. Whether Children can be Generated by Incubi and Succubi, 36 -- Question IV. By which Devils are the Operations of Incubus and Succubus Practised?, 39 -- 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?, 42 -- Question VI. Concerning Witches who copulate with Devils. Why is it that Women are chiefly -- addicted to Evil superstitions?, 45 -- Question VII. Whether Witches can Sway the Minds of Men to Love or Hatred, 48 -- Question VIII. Whether Witches can Hebetate the Powers of Generation or Obstruct the -- Venereal Act, 52 -- Question IX. Whether Witches may work some Prestidigatory Illusion so that the Male Organ -- appears to be entirely removed and separate from the Body, 55 -- Question X. Whether Witches can by some Glamour Change Men into Beasts, 58 -- Question 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 Offer New?born Children to Devils, 62 -- Question XII. Whether the Permission of Almighty God is an Accompaniment of Witchcraft, 63 -- Question XIII. Herein is set forth the Question, concerning the Two Divine Permissions which -- God justly allows, namely, that the Devil, the Author or all Evil, should Sin, and that our First -- Parents should Fall, from which Origins the Works of Witches are justly suffered to take place, 66 -- Question XIV. The Enormity of Witches is Considered, and it is shown that the Whole Matter -- should be rightly Set Forth and Declared, 68 -- Question XV. It is Shown that, on Account of the Sins of Witches, the Innocent are often -- Bewitched, yea, Sometimes even for their Own Sins, 72 -- Question XVI. The Foregoing Truths are Set out in Particular, this by a Comparison of the -- Works of Witches with Other Baleful Superstitions, 75 -- Question XVII. A Comparison of their Crimes under Fourteen Heads, with the Sins of the -- Devils of all and every Kind, 77 -- Question XVIII. Here follows the Method of Preaching against and Controverting Five -- Arguments of Laymen and Lewd Folk, which seem to be Variously Approved, that God does -- not Allow so Great Power to the Devil and Witches as is involved in the Performance of such -- Mighty Works of Witchcraft, 78 -- Malleus Maleficarum Part 2, 82 -- Question I. Of those against whom the Power of Witches availeth not at all, 82 -- Chapter I. Of the several Methods by which Devils through Witches Entice and Allure the -- Innocent to the Increase of that Horrid Craft and Company, 86 -- Chapter II. Of the Way whereby a Formal PAct with Evil is made, 89 -- Chapter III. How they are Transported from Place to Place, 92 -- Chapter IV. Here follows the Way whereby Witches copulate with those Devils known as Incubi, 95 -- Malleus Maleficarum -- i