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Witches' Hammer
(redirected from Malleus Maleficarum)

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Witches’ Hammer
manual for recognizing telltale marks of witches (15th century). [Eur. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 952]
See : Witchcraft
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The social stigma attached to hirsutism (excess facial or body hair in women) probably reached its height during the Middle Ages when the Malleus Maleficarum or "Hammer of Witches" claimed that facial hair was one of the ways to recognize a witch.
Impede unwanted hair growth by Goldfaden, Gary; Goldfaden, Robert / Life Extension
Montague Summers mentions malevolent uses of the witch's ladder in his 1928 introduction to his Malleus Maleficarum translation.
The non-dead in John Dickson Carr's The Burning Court by Christopher, Joe R. / Mythlore
95 Paperback BF1566 Summers prepared scholarly histories of the occult and translated such works as the Malleus Maleficarum, knowing full well his field of study was suspect at best.
The history of witchcraft and demonology. (reprint, 1926) by Reference & Research Book News
 
 
 
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