The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger Henricus Institoris, Heinrich Institoris
Publisher: Dover Publications

The title is translated as "The Hammer of Witches". The best account of crazy ideas about witches, an account originating more than five hundred years ago, is the Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger. It also helps illuminate slightly the title of the Heinrich Kramer, James Sprenger torture manual Malleus Maleficarum (1487), I've got the book on my shelf (I should get around to reading it). €Malleus Maleficarum” es un libro escrito por Heinrich Kramer y James Sprenger, publicado por primera vez en el año 1486 que se convirtió en la antorcha que encendió las hogueras de leña verde. Certainly one of the most extraordinary of these exotic scenes is the maleficum that Heinrich Kramer, the principal author of the Malleus, relates in a chapter that Montague Summers, in his famously flawed but sometimes evocative translation into English, calls “Whether Witches may work some Prestidigatory Illusion so that the Male Organ .. While Malleus has influenced generations of historians, it is less clear that it had much influence on its readers. The connection between midwives and witchcraft dates back to the notorious Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for Hammer of Witches), written in 1486 by two Dominican inquisitors, Jacob Spernger and Heinrich Kramer. Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger/“The Witches' Hammer”, c. Holy inquisitions are a particular interest, the topic additionally an inspiration through books such as The Name Of The Rose (1980, Umberto Eco), Malleus Maleficarum (1486, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger), and many, many more. In Malleus, Sprenger and Kramer offer lurid accusations that midwives murdered newborn children and sacrificed them to the Devil. Written in Latin, the Malleus was first submitted to the University of Cologne on May 9th, 1487. €In the whole vast literature of witchcraft, the most prominent, the most important, the most authoritative volume, is the Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger. [i]Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum: Or, The Hammer of Witches (Forgotten Books, 2008), 98. O Malleus Maleficarum, ou Martelo das Bruxas, é um livro escrito em 1486 por dois monges dominicanos: Heinrich Kramer e James Sprenger.