Malleus Maleficarum
Also known as Hammer of Witches
treatise on the prosecution of witches
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The "Malleus maleficarum" is a 15th-century treatise that provided guidelines for identifying and prosecuting people accused of witchcraft. It became influential in European witch trials and is historically significant as a document that shaped how authorities approached witchcraft allegations during a period when thousands were executed on such charges.
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Key facts
- Full title
- Malleus Maleficarum
- Also known as
- Hammer of Witches
- Author s
- Heinrich Kramer
- Language
- Latin
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- Image
- Sprenger - Malleus maleficarum, 1669 - BEIC 9477645.tiff
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- publication date
- 1487-00-00
- Commons category
- Malleus Maleficarum
- title
- MALLEUS MALEFICARUM, Maleficas, & earum hæresim, ut phramea potentissima conterens