Like Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” Kramer and Sprenger’s “Malleus Maleficarum” is a book that is read for historical importance rather than enjoyment. As such it should form a part of every thinking person's library as a warning beacon, if for no other reason that it is a seminal textbook on the inhumanity of humanity. First written in 1484 (and reprinted endlessly), “Malleus Maleficarum” was immediately given the imprimatur of the Holy See as the most important work on witchcraft, to date. And so it remains—a compendium of fifteenth century paranoia, all the more frightening for its totalitarian modernity. ("Anything that is done for the benefit of the State is Good.") In form, it is a "how to" guide on recognizing, capturing, torturing, and executing witches. In substance, it is a diatribe against women, heretics, independent thinkers, romantic lovers, the sensitive passions, human sexuality, and compassion. In writing the Malleus, Kramer and Sprenger claimed to be doing "God's work" These men, and those who followed them worshiped only their own arrogance. Read it and be afraid! Forming a portion of every working law library for 300 years, there is no estimate of how many women and men were put to death through the mechanism of this book. Some historians estimate that the numbers may run into the millions. The text is rife with "case law" examples of witchcraft, some of which are clearly delusional and some downright silly, or would be, if they hadn't ended in gruesome deaths for the accused. Take the case of the poor woman who was burned for offering the opinion that "it might rain today" shortly before it did. Of note are Kramer and Spenger's assertions that prosecutors are (conveniently) "immune" to witchcraft, and their instructions to Judges to tell the truth to the witch that there will be mercy shown (with the mental reservation that death is a mercy to those prisoner to the devil). Such twisted logic is the cornerstone of the Malleus. The translator, Rev. Montague Summers, waxes rhapsodic on the "learning" and "wisdom" of the authors of the Malleus. He was apparently of a mind with Kramer and Spenger, and wrote two embarrassingly effusive and bigoted introductions (in 1928 and 1946), praising the "brillance" of this work and its importance in this "feministic" era. Summers' commentary is as frightening as anything Kramer and Sprenger wrote in the text proper, the more so for being 20th century, and particularly post-World War Two. Like the Papal Bull of VIII which is now considered integral with the Malleus, future commentators will make much of the statements of Summers, a "modern" man. As a license to kill, the “Malleus Maleficarum” was used too often and far too freely. Kramer and Sprenger’s madness did not die with them—though millions have died because of the madness presented in this book.

*Illustrated with the original pictures from the Malleus Maleficarum, as well as pictures of some of the original pages of the book.

James Sprenger (also Jacob, Jakob, Jacobus, 1436/1438 – 6 December 1495) was a German priest. He was born in Rheinfelden. He was named in the 1484 papal bull Summis desiderantes of Pope Innocent VIII. Popular opinion makes Sprenger the co-author of the Malleus Maleficarum. All editions after 1519 named him as Heinrich Kramer's collaborator.

It has been claimed that Sprenger was not interested in witches and that he cannot be linked to any witch trial. His personal relationship to Kramer was acrimonious and Sprenger used his powerful position whenever he could to make Kramer’s life and work as difficult as possible. Scholars now believe that he became associated with the Malleus Maleficarum largely as a result of Kramer's wish to lend his book as much official authority as possible.

Heinrich Kramer (c. 1430, Schlettstadt, Alsace–1505, Brünn or Olmütz) also known under the Latinized name Henricus Institoris, was a German churchman and inquisitor. Born in Schlettstadt, Alsace, he joined the Dominican Order at an early age and while still a young man was appointed Prior of the Dominican house of his native town. In 1485 he drew up a treatise on witchcraft which was incorporated in the Malleus Maleficarum (literally "The hammer of malefactresses (wrongdoing women - i.e. witches)").

Kramer failed in his attempt to obtain endorsement for this work from the top theologians of the Inquisition at the Faculty of Cologne, and they condemned the book as recommending unethical and illegal procedures, as well as being inconsistent with Catholic doctrines of demonology. Kramer's claimed endorsement from four of the professors may have been forged. He was denounced by the Inquisition in 1490.

The Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for "Hammer of the Witches", or "Der Hexenhammer" in German) is a famous treatise on witches and was first published in Germany in 1487.The main purpose of the Malleus was to attempt to systematically refute arguments claiming that witchcraft does not exist, discredit those who expressed skepticism about its reality, to claim that witches were more often women than men, and to educate magistrates on the procedures that could find them out and convict them. Kramer was denounced by the Inquisition in 1490.

This edition of Malleus Maleficarum is specially formatted with a Table of Contents.

*Illustrated with the original pictures from the Malleus Maleficarum, as well as pictures of some of the original pages of the book.

James Sprenger (also Jacob, Jakob, Jacobus, 1436/1438 – 6 December 1495) was a German priest. He was born in Rheinfelden. He was named in the 1484 papal bull Summis desiderantes of Pope Innocent VIII. Popular opinion makes Sprenger the co-author of the Malleus Maleficarum. All editions after 1519 named him as Heinrich Kramer's collaborator.

It has been claimed that Sprenger was not interested in witches and that he cannot be linked to any witch trial. His personal relationship to Kramer was acrimonious and Sprenger used his powerful position whenever he could to make Kramer’s life and work as difficult as possible. Scholars now believe that he became associated with the Malleus Maleficarum largely as a result of Kramer's wish to lend his book as much official authority as possible.

Heinrich Kramer (c. 1430, Schlettstadt, Alsace–1505, Brünn or Olmütz) also known under the Latinized name Henricus Institoris, was a German churchman and inquisitor. Born in Schlettstadt, Alsace, he joined the Dominican Order at an early age and while still a young man was appointed Prior of the Dominican house of his native town. In 1485 he drew up a treatise on witchcraft which was incorporated in the Malleus Maleficarum (literally "The hammer of malefactresses (wrongdoing women - i.e. witches)").

Kramer failed in his attempt to obtain endorsement for this work from the top theologians of the Inquisition at the Faculty of Cologne, and they condemned the book as recommending unethical and illegal procedures, as well as being inconsistent with Catholic doctrines of demonology. Kramer's claimed endorsement from four of the professors may have been forged. He was denounced by the Inquisition in 1490.

The Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for "Hammer of the Witches", or "Der Hexenhammer" in German) is a famous treatise on witches and was first published in Germany in 1487.The main purpose of the Malleus was to attempt to systematically refute arguments claiming that witchcraft does not exist, discredit those who expressed skepticism about its reality, to claim that witches were more often women than men, and to educate magistrates on the procedures that could find them out and convict them. Kramer was denounced by the Inquisition in 1490.

This edition of Malleus Maleficarum is specially formatted with a Table of Contents.

This is the famous treatise on witches, written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, an Inquisitor of the Catholic Church, and was first published in Germany.

This is the famous treatise on witches, written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, an Inquisitor of the Catholic Church, and was first published in Germany.

The "Malleus Maleficarum" (Latin for “The Hammer of Witches”, or “Hexenhammer” in German) is one of the most famous medieval treatises on witches. It was written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, and was first published in Germany in 1487. Its main purpose was to challenge all arguments against the existence of witchcraft and to instruct magistrates on how to identify, interrogate and convict witches. The "Malleus" was widely used during the Inquisitions and is therefore considered by some to be one of the most bloodstained works in European history.

This e-Book version of the "Malleus Maleficarum" for Kindle has been specially formatted by the good folks at the "Malleus Maleficarum Online" project (www.MalleusMaleficarum.org) and features a fully functional Table of Contents and detailed Notes substructure. Every note in every chapter links to the Note entry in the notes subtext, resulting in a very useful edition for students or anyone studying the "Malleus Maleficarum" and Medieval history as related to the Inquisition.

This version of the "Malleus Maleficarum" includes the English translation first published in 1928 by Rev. Montague Summers, the introduction to the 1928 edition, the Bull of Pope Innocent VIII, the Official Letter of Approbation from the University of Cologne, as well as a Bibliography and detailed notes by Montague Summers, and an introduction by Wicasta Lovelace, curator of the "Malleus Maleficarum Online" project.

The "Malleus Maleficarum" (Latin for “The Hammer of Witches”, or “Hexenhammer” in German) is one of the most famous medieval treatises on witches. It was written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, and was first published in Germany in 1487. Its main purpose was to challenge all arguments against the existence of witchcraft and to instruct magistrates on how to identify, interrogate and convict witches. The "Malleus" was widely used during the Inquisitions and is therefore considered by some to be one of the most bloodstained works in European history.

This e-Book version of the "Malleus Maleficarum" for Kindle has been specially formatted by the good folks at the "Malleus Maleficarum Online" project (www.MalleusMaleficarum.org) and features a fully functional Table of Contents and detailed Notes substructure. Every note in every chapter links to the Note entry in the notes subtext, resulting in a very useful edition for students or anyone studying the "Malleus Maleficarum" and Medieval history as related to the Inquisition.

This version of the "Malleus Maleficarum" includes the English translation first published in 1928 by Rev. Montague Summers, the introduction to the 1928 edition, the Bull of Pope Innocent VIII, the Official Letter of Approbation from the University of Cologne, as well as a Bibliography and detailed notes by Montague Summers, and an introduction by Wicasta Lovelace, curator of the "Malleus Maleficarum Online" project.

The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486-7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early modern period. Its descriptions of the evil acts of witches and the ways to exterminate them continue to contribute to our knowledge of early modern law, religion and society. Mackay's highly acclaimed translation, based on his extensive research and detailed analysis of the Latin text, is the only complete English version available, and the most reliable. Now available in a single volume, this key text is at last accessible to students and scholars of medieval history and literature. With detailed explanatory notes and a guide to further reading, this volume offers a unique insight into the fifteenth-century mind and its sense of sin, punishment and retribution.

The most famous (or perhaps infamous) book for Catholic inquisitors, Malleus Maleficarum describes the procedures for trying witches. Additionally, it attempts to refute the arguments of skeptics who doubt the existence of witches.

In its own time, it was both popular and controversial, and this controversy and cultural significance continues even into modern times.

The most famous (or perhaps infamous) book for Catholic inquisitors, Malleus Maleficarum describes the procedures for trying witches. Additionally, it attempts to refute the arguments of skeptics who doubt the existence of witches.

In its own time, it was both popular and controversial, and this controversy and cultural significance continues even into modern times.

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and with strange aeons even death may die.

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OUTER GODS rule the universe. All races and lesser deities of the Mythos acknowledge the Outer Gods, and may worship them. Except for Nyarlathotep, these gods have little to do with humanity.

ELDER GODS are neutral to or possibly rivals to the Outer Gods. Though vast and of awesome power, they do not seem to be as dangerous to humanity as the Outer Gods.

GREAT OLD ONES are not omnipotent, but nonetheless are godlike and terrible in human eyes. Humans are likely to worship Great Old Ones, who are comparatively near at hand.

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Like Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” Kramer and Sprenger’s “Malleus Maleficarum” is a book that is read for historical importance rather than enjoyment. As such it should form a part of every thinking person's library as a warning beacon, if for no other reason that it is a seminal textbook on the inhumanity of humanity. First written in 1484 (and reprinted endlessly), “Malleus Maleficarum” was immediately given the imprimatur of the Holy See as the most important work on witchcraft, to date. And so it remains—a compendium of fifteenth century paranoia, all the more frightening for its totalitarian modernity. ("Anything that is done for the benefit of the State is Good.") In form, it is a "how to" guide on recognizing, capturing, torturing, and executing witches. In substance, it is a diatribe against women, heretics, independent thinkers, romantic lovers, the sensitive passions, human sexuality, and compassion. In writing the Malleus, Kramer and Sprenger claimed to be doing "God's work" These men, and those who followed them worshiped only their own arrogance. Read it and be afraid! Forming a portion of every working law library for 300 years, there is no estimate of how many women and men were put to death through the mechanism of this book. Some historians estimate that the numbers may run into the millions. The text is rife with "case law" examples of witchcraft, some of which are clearly delusional and some downright silly, or would be, if they hadn't ended in gruesome deaths for the accused. Take the case of the poor woman who was burned for offering the opinion that "it might rain today" shortly before it did. Of note are Kramer and Spenger's assertions that prosecutors are (conveniently) "immune" to witchcraft, and their instructions to Judges to tell the truth to the witch that there will be mercy shown (with the mental reservation that death is a mercy to those prisoner to the devil). Such twisted logic is the cornerstone of the Malleus. The translator, Rev. Montague Summers, waxes rhapsodic on the "learning" and "wisdom" of the authors of the Malleus. He was apparently of a mind with Kramer and Spenger, and wrote two embarrassingly effusive and bigoted introductions (in 1928 and 1946), praising the "brillance" of this work and its importance in this "feministic" era. Summers' commentary is as frightening as anything Kramer and Sprenger wrote in the text proper, the more so for being 20th century, and particularly post-World War Two. Like the Papal Bull of VIII which is now considered integral with the Malleus, future commentators will make much of the statements of Summers, a "modern" man. As a license to kill, the “Malleus Maleficarum” was used too often and far too freely. Kramer and Sprenger’s madness did not die with them—though millions have died because of the madness presented in this book.

El Malleus Maleficarum (del latín: Martillo de las Brujas), es probablemente el tratado más importante que se haya publicado en el contexto de la persecución de brujas y la histeria brujeril del Renacimiento. Es un exhaustivo libro sobre la caza de brujas, que luego de ser publicado primeramente en Alemania en 1486, tuvo docenas de nuevas ediciones, se difundió por Europa y tuvo un profundo impacto en los juicios contra las brujas en el continente por cerca de 200 años. Esta obra es notoria por su uso en el período de la histeria por la caza de brujas que alcanzó su máxima expresión desde mediados del siglo XVI hasta mediados del XVII.

El Malleus Maleficarum (del latín: Martillo de las Brujas), es probablemente el tratado más importante que se haya publicado en el contexto de la persecución de brujas y la histeria brujeril del Renacimiento. Es un exhaustivo libro sobre la caza de brujas, que luego de ser publicado primeramente en Alemania en 1486, tuvo docenas de nuevas ediciones, se difundió por Europa y tuvo un profundo impacto en los juicios contra las brujas en el continente por cerca de 200 años. Esta obra es notoria por su uso en el período de la histeria por la caza de brujas que alcanzó su máxima expresión desde mediados del siglo XVI hasta mediados del XVII.