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Witches’ Hammer manual for recognizing telltale marks of witches (15th century). [Eur. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 952] See : Witchcraft How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In his book length study Witchcraft Williams quotes a lengthy passage from the Malleus Maleficarum that outlines Satan's motives in terms that are expressly linked to Plato's notion that goodness and being emanate from God as the single "self-existing" centre of all: The fifteenth-century inquisitors, Heinrich Kramer and James Spranger, 41-47 and passim, compiled numerous Biblical pronouncements against women and marriage in the popular witch manual, the Malleus maleficarum (1486? 101) Significantly, the Malleus Maleficarum discussed the supposed reasons why older women were especially prone to witchcraft, but it also discussed the reasons why younger women were attracted to it as well. |
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