Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as The Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise on witchcraft.
It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer, and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486. It has been described as the compendium of literature in demonology of the 15th century.
The top theologians of the Inquisition at the Faculty of Cologne condemned the book as recommending unethical and illegal procedures, as well as being inconsistent with Catholic doctrines of demonology. The Malleus elevates sorcery to the criminal status of heresy, and recommends that secular courts prosecute it as such.
The Malleus suggests torture to effectively obtain confessions, and the death penalty as the only certain remedy against the evils of witchcraft. At the time of its publication, heretics were frequently sentenced to be burned alive at the stake, and the Malleus encouraged the same treatment of witches.
Despite its condemnation by the clergy, the book enjoyed a period of popularity among literate laymen.
PART ONE
00:00 – Introduction
27:45 – The Bull of Innocent the 8th
36:32 – 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
1:29:46 – 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.
2:13:42 – Question III. Whether Children can be Generated by Incubi and Succubi
2:45:58 – Question IV. By which Devils are the Operations of Incubus and Succubus Practised?
3:00:10 – 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?
3:48:20 – Question VI. Concerning Witches who copulate with Devils. Why is it that Women are chiefly addicted to Evil Superstitions?
4:21:46 – Question VII. Whether Witches can Sway the Minds of Men to Love or Hatred
4:50:46 – Question VIII. Whether Witches can Hebetate the Powers of Generation or Obstruct the Venereal Act
5:07:11 – Question IX. Whether Witches may work some Prestidigitatory Illusion so that the Male Organ appears to be entirely removed and separate from the Body
5:23:33 – Question X. Whether Witches can by some Glamour Change Men into Beasts
5:45:48 – 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 page
5:49:49 – Question XII. Whether the Permission of Almighty God is an
Accompaniment of Witchcraft
6:09:38 – Question 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
Solutions of the Arguments.
6:21:47 – Question XIV. The Enormity of Witches is Considered, and it is shown that the Whole Matter should be rightly Set Forth and Declared
6:40:01 – 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
6:51:33 – Question XVI. The Foregoing Truths are Set out in Particular; this by a Comparison of the Works of Witches with Other Baleful Superstitions
7:02:56 – Question XVII. A Comparison of their crimes under Fourteen Heads, with the Sins of the Devils of all and every Kind
7:10:30 – Question XVIII. Here follows the Method of Preaching against and Controverting Five Arguments of
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