Malleus Maleficarum
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translated by Montague Summers............................................................................................................1Introduction to the Malleus Maleficarum...............................................................................................4Introduction to the 1948Version........................................................................................................................26Malleus Maleficarum Part 1................................................................................................................................30Question I. Whether the Belief that there are such Beings as Witches is so Essential a Part of theCatholic Faith that Obstinacy to maintain the Opposite Opinion manifestly savours of Heresy........30Question II. If itbe in Accordance with the Catholic Faith to maintain that in Order to bringabout some Eff ect of Magic, the Devil must intimately co−operate with the Witch, or whetherone without theother, that is to say, the Devil without the Witch, or conversely, could producesuch an Effect.........................................................................................................................................33Question III. Whether Children can be Generated by Incubi and Succubi...........................................36Question IV. Bywhich Devils are the Operations of Incubus and Succubus Practised?.....................39Question V. What is the Source of the Increaseof Works of Witchcraft? Whence comes it thatthe Practice of Witchcraft hath so notably increased?..........................................................................42Question VI. Concerning Witches who copulate with Devils. Why is it that Women are chieflyaddicted to Evilsuperstitions?..............................................................................................................45Question VII. Whether Witches can Sway the Minds of Men to Love or Hatred................................48Question VIII.Whether Witches can Hebetate the Powers of Generation orObstruct theVenereal Act..........................................................................................................................................52Question IX. Whether Witches may work some Prestidigatory Illusion so that the Male Organappears to be entirely removed and separate from the Body................................................................55Question X. Whether Witches can by some Glamour Change Men into Beasts..................................58Question XI. That Witches who are Midwives in Various Ways Kill the Child Conceived in theWomb, and Procure an Abortion; or if they do not this Offer New−born Children to Devils............62Question XII. Whether the Permission of Almighty God is an Accompaniment of Witchcraft..........63Question XIII. Herein is set forth the Question, concerning the Two Divine Permissions whichGod justly allows, namely, that the Devil, the Author or all Evil, should Sin, and that our FirstParents should Fall, from which Origins the Works of Witches are justly suffered to take place.......66Question XIV. The Enormity of Witches is Considered, and it is shown that the Whole Mattershould be rightly Set Forth and Declared.............................................................................................68Question XV. Itis Shown that, on Account of the Sins of Witches, the Innocent are oftenBewitched, yea,Sometimes even for their Own Sins...........................................................................72Question XVI. The Foregoing Truths are Setout in Particular, this by a Comparison of theWorks of Witches with Other Baleful Superstitions.............................................................................75Question XVII.A Comparison of their Crimes under Fourteen Heads, with the Sins of theDevils of all and every Kind.................................................................................................................77Question XVIII.Here follows the Method of Preaching against and Controverting FiveArguments of Laymen and Lewd Folk, which seem to be Variously Approved, that God doesnot Allow so Great Power to the Devil and Witches as is involved in the Performance of suchMighty Works of Witchcraft..................................................................................................................78Malleus Maleficarum Part 2................................................................................................................................82Question 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 Enticeand Allure theInnocent to theIncrease of that Horrid Craft and Company.................................................................86Chapter II. Of the Way whereby a Formal Pact with Evil is made......................................................89Chapter III. How they are Transported from Place to Place.................................................................92Chapter IV. Here follows the Way whereby Witches copulate with those Devils known as Incubi....95
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Chapter V. Witches commonly perform their Spells through the Sacraments of the Church. Andhow they Impairthe Powers of Generation, and how they may Cause other Ills to happen toGod's Creaturesof all kinds. But herein we except the Question of the Influence of the Stars...........98Chapter VI. How Witches Impede and Prevent the Power of Procreation.........................................101Chapter VII. How, as it were, they Deprive Man of his Virile Member............................................102Chapter VIII. Of the Manner whereby they Change Men into the Shapes of Beasts.........................106Chapter IX. How Devils may enter the Human Body and the Head without doing any Hurt,when they causesuch Metamorphosis by Means of Prestidigitation.................................................108Chapter X. Of the Method by which Devils through the Operations of Witches sometimesactually possessmen............................................................................................................................111Chapter XI. Of the Method by which they can Inflict Every Sort of Infirmity, generally Ills of the Graver Kind...................................................................................................................................114
Chapter XII. Of the Way how in Particular they Afflict Men with Other Like Infirmities................117Chapter XIII. How Witch Midwives commit most Horrid Crimes when they either KillChildren or Offer them to Devils in most Accursed Wise..................................................................120Chapter XIV. Here followeth how Witches Injure Cattle in Various Ways.......................................123Chapter XV. How they Raise and Stir up Hailstorms and Tempests, and Cause Lightning toBlast both Menand Beasts..................................................................................................................125Chapter XVI. Of Three Ways in which Men and Women may be Discovered to be Addicted toWitchcraft: Divided into Three Heads: and First of the Witchcraft of Archers.................................128Question II. Introduction, whereinis Set Forth the Difficulty of this Question.................................130Chapter I. The Remedies prescribed by the Holy Church against Incubus and Succubus Devils......134Chapter II. Remedies prescribed for Those who are Bewitched by the Limitation of theGenerative Power.................................................................................................................................137Chapter III. Remedies prescribed for those who are Bewitched by being Inflamed withInordinate Loveor Extraordinary Hatred...........................................................................................140Chapter IV. Remedies presribed for those who by Prestidigitative Art have lost their VirileMembers or have seemingly been Transformed into the Shapes of Beasts........................................142Chapter V. Prescribed Remedies for those who are Obsessed owing to some Spell..........................144Chapter VI. Prescribed Remedies; to wit, the Lawful Exorcisms of the Church, for all Sorts of Infirmities andIlls due to Witchcraft; and the Method of Exorcising those who are Bewitched......147
ChapterVII. Remedies prescribed against Hailstorms, and for animals that are Bewitched.............151Chapter VIII. Certain Remedies prescribed against those Dark and Horrid Harms with whichDevils may Aff lict Men......................................................................................................................154Malleus Maleficarum Part 3..............................................................................................................................156The Third Head.Which is the last Part of this Work. How the Process is to be Concluded bythe Pronouncement of a Definite and Just Sentence...........................................................................156General and Introductory. Who are the Fit and Proper Judges in the Trial of Witches?....................156Question I. TheMethod of Initiating a Process..................................................................................160Question II. Of the Number of Witnesses...........................................................................................162Question III. Of the Solemn Adjuration and Re−examination of Witnesses......................................163Question IV. Of the Quality and Condition of Witnesses..................................................................163Question V. Whether Mortal Enemies may be Admitted as Witnesses.............................................164Question VI. How the Trial is to be Proceeded with and Continued. And how the Witnesses areto be Examinedin the Presence of Four Other Persons, and how the Accused is to beQuestioned in Two Ways....................................................................................................................165Question VII. In Which Various Doubts are Set Forth with Regard to the Foregoing Questionsand Negative Answers. Whether the Accused is to be Imprisoned, and when she is to be
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