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    The Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise about witchcraft. It was written by the German Catholic...
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  • Malleus Maleficarum (stylized as Mallevs Maleficarvm) is the debut studio album by the Dutch death metal band Pestilence, released in 1988. Although the...
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    association with a well-known guide for witch-hunters from 1486, Malleus Maleficarum. He was born in Rheinfelden, Further Austria, taught at the University...
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  • Malleus (Latin for "hammer") is a bone in the middle ear. Malleus may also refer to: Malleus (bivalve), a genus of bivalves Malleus (disease), a bacterial...
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    heretics in Göttingen. Inquisitor Heinrich Kramer, author of the Malleus Maleficarum, in his own words, sentenced 48 people to the stake in five years...
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    German churchman and inquisitor. With his widely distributed book Malleus Maleficarum (1487), which describes witchcraft and endorses detailed processes...
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    of a bull, or wearing bull horns as a crown.[citation needed] In Malleus Maleficarum, Heinrich Kramer wrote that demons can take the form of children...
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    role in demonology. Although the Sabbath was first mentioned in the Malleus Maleficarum and would later become an essential component of many witch trials...
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    claims that he was born of a human mother and an angel father. In the Malleus Maleficarum (1486), Asmodeus was considered the demon of lust. Sebastien Michaelis...
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  • the Malleus Maleficarum, published in 1487 by clergyman and German inquisitor Heinrich Kramer, accompanied by Jacobus Sprenger. Malleus Maleficarum is...
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    century. The most infamous and influential work of witch-hunting lore, Malleus Maleficarum (1486) does not contain the word sabbath (sabbatum). The first recorded...
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  • having Sam and Dean blowtorching babies. The title of the episode "Malleus Maleficarum" references the Middle Ages treatise of the same name detailing how...
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    boy's head motivates Gessler's murder. In Heinrich Kramer's 1486 Malleus Maleficarum (Book 2, chapter 16), a related story occurs: Punker of Rohrbach...
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    legends, the children of Lilith are called Lilin. According to the Malleus Maleficarum, or Witches' Hammer, written by Heinrich Kramer (Institoris) in 1486...
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  • male-dominated crime, women were being prosecuted left and right. The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the most well-known treatise on witchcraft, written by...
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  • Middle Ages, but did not have a widely accepted name. The influential Malleus Maleficarum, which has been described as the major compendium of literature in...
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    performed the bass duties live. He recorded two albums with them, Malleus Maleficarum and Consuming Impulse. After his departure from Pestilence, van Drunen...
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    published his translation of the 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum, and for decades this remained the only full English translation...
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  • earthly bodies and travelling great distances in spirit (to which the Malleus Maleficarum "devotes one long and important chapter"), usually to engage in devil-worship...
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    account of demonic parentage in Western Christian literature. In the Malleus Maleficarum, exorcism is presented as one of the five ways to overcome the attacks...
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  • the Winchesters to use in their war against demons. The episode "Malleus Maleficarum" provides her backstory, revealing that she had been a witch during...
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    possession Witchcraft and divination in the Hebrew Bible Witch of Endor Malleus Maleficarum Evans, G. Blakemore (1997). The Riverside Shakespeare (2 ed.). Boston...
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    then-recently-published manual for the interrogation and prosecution of witchcraft Malleus Maleficarum . Molitor maintains the tradition held in the Canon Episcopi that...
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    Age of Enlightenment. One text that shaped the witch-hunts was the Malleus Maleficarum, a 1486 treatise that provided a framework for identifying, prosecuting...
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    and right-hand path Cunning folk in Britain European witchcraft Malleus Maleficarum Granny woman Cunning folk Magical alphabets Runes Theban Hebrew Witching...
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    Alexander VII) Diego Deza Bernard Gui Heinrich Institoris, author of Malleus Maleficarum Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros Konrad von Marburg Sebastien Michaelis...
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    can be male or female, but is used predominantly for females). The Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for 'Hammer of The Witches') was a witch-hunting manual written...
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    Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger (15th century), authors of the Malleus Maleficarum, adopted an intermediate position. According to their book, demons...
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    are supposedly floating in. The Catholic witch-hunting manual, the Malleus Maleficarum, asserted that witches can turn into cats, but that their transformations...
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    him to retire and to compile his views on witchcraft into his book Malleus Maleficarum, which was published in 1487. Kramer would later claim that witchcraft...
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