History Literature / MalleusMaleficarum

* KnightTemplar: Encouraged this behavior.

* ChurchMilitant: Kramer

** ScienceMarchesOn: Anyone with a High-School education would know why the result would be something completely human rather than a half demon.

* KnightTemplar: The witch-hunters.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kramer again.

The ''Malleus Maleficarum'' (The Hammer of the Witches) is a witch-hunting manual written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, an Inquisitor of the Catholic Church, and first published in Germany, where it is known as ''Die Hexenhammer'', in 1487. Jacob Sprenger's name is also attached to the book, though it is unclear if he did anything more than endorse it. The book is virulently misogynistic, though it acknowledges that both men and women can be witches. The book encouraged the use of torture to extract confessions in ways that were not actually legal under the laws of the Inquisition. The book's original endorsement was probably forged; the Inquisition actually discouraged the use of this manual by their witch-hunters, but that did not prevent laymen from using it.

* MagicIsEvil

* AuthorAppeal[=/=]AuthorTract: Kramer had a particular obsession with impotency curses, as well as with demon rape (the latter to the point of getting tossed from every monastery he got sent to after driving the monks up the wall by talking nonstop about it).

* KnightTemplar: The witch-hunters

* SoulsavingCrusader: In the minds of Kramer and his devotees

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kramer again

* WilliamTelling: Contains a story very similar to WilliamTell. Punker, Puncker, or Puncher of Rohrbach in the Upper Rhineland is said to have been ordered by "a very eminent person" in about 1430 to prove his extraordinary marksmanship (regarded by Kramer as a sign of consorting with the devil) by shooting a penny off the cap on his young son's head without disturbing the cap. Like William Tell, he too kept a second arrow in reserve to kill the prince in case he failed.

* TheWitchHunter

* AuthorTract: Kramer had a particular obsession with impotency curses, as well as with demon rape (the latter to the point of getting tossed from every monastery he got sent to after driving the monks up the wall by talking nonstop about it).

The ''Malleus Maleficarum'' (The Hammer of the Witches) is a witch-hunting manual written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, an Inquisitor of the Catholic Church, and first published in Germany, where it is known as ''Die Hexenhammer'', in 1487. Jacob Sprenger's name is also attached to the book, though it is unclear if he did anything more than endorse it. The book is virulently misogynistic, though it acknowledges that both men and women can be witches. The book encouraged the use of torture in to extract confessions in ways that were not actually legal under the laws of the Inquisition. The book's original endorsement was probably forged; the Inquisition actually discouraged the use of this manual by their witch-hunters, but that did not prevent laymen from using it.

The ''Malleus Maleficarum'' (The Hammer of Witches) is a witch-hunting manual written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, an Inquisitor of the Catholic Church, and first published in Germany, where it is known as ''Die Hexenhammer'', in 1487. Jacob Sprenger's name is also attached to the book, though it is unclear if he did anything more than endorse it. The book is virulently misogynistic, though it acknowledges that both men and women can be witches. The book encouraged the use of torture in to extract confessions in ways that were not actually legal under the laws of the Inquisition. The book's original endorsement was probably forged; the Inquisition actually discouraged the use of this manual by their witch-hunters, but that did not prevent laymen from using it.

The ''Malleus Maleficarum'' (The Hammer of Witches), also known as ''Die Hexenhammer'' in German, is a witch-hunting manual written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, an Inquisitor of the Catholic Church, and first published in Germany in 1487. Jacob Sprenger's name is also attached to the book, though it is unclear if he did anything more than endorse it. The book is virulently misogynistic, though it acknowledges that both men and women can be witches. The book encouraged the use of torture in to extract confessions in ways that were not actually legal under the laws of the Inquisition. The book's original endorsement was probably forged; the Inquisition actually discouraged the use of this manual by their witch-hunters, but that did not prevent laymen from using it.

A witch-hunting manual written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, an Inquisitor of the Catholic Church, and first published in Germany in 1487. Jacob Sprenger's name is also attached to the book, though it is unclear if he did anything more than endorse it. The book, whose title translates to "Hammer of the Witches" is virulently misogynistic, though acknowledging that both men and women can be witches. The book encouraged the use of torture in to extract confessions in ways that were not actually legal under the laws of the Inquisition. The book's original endorsement was probably forged; the Inquisition actually discouraged the use of this manual by their witch-hunters, but that did not prevent laymen from using it.

* AuthorTract: Kramer had a particular obsession with impotency curses, as well as with demon rape (to the point of getting tossed from every monastery he got sent to after driving the monks up the wall by talking nonstop about it).

* AuthorTract: Kramer had a particular obsession with impotency curses.

* StalkerWithATestTube: Succubi and incubi.
* TheVamp: Pretty-much every female witch, apparently. Possibly just [[AllWomenAreLustful every female]] in general; [[AuthorOnBoard Kramer was a rampant misogynist]].

* StalkerWithATestTube: Succubi and incubi, according to Jacob Sprenger.

* TheVamp: Pretty-much every female witch, apparently. Possibly just [[AllWomenAreLustful every female]] in general; [[AuthorOnBoard Kramer was a rampant mysoginist]].

Although some writers have claimed that the book was pretty much the cornerstone of a major anti-witchcraft movement and judges and priests all over Europe had a copy, and thus is associated with the image of the Inquisition being a torture-fest, HistoryMarchesOn and it is not thought to be near as influential as once thought. Most theologians of Kramer's time condemned the book for recommending unethical and illegal procedures, and for being inconsistent with established Christian dogma on demonology, while the various Inquisitions had higher standards for evidence and ethics (the Inquisition established the modern [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitorial_system Inquisitorial system]] used today) than the book proposed and witchcraft was never something they were especially interested in prosecuting, often maintaining a skepticism on whether witches even existed.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Inquisition's standards for what was permissible when using torture were higher than Kramer's. They understood that torture could result in false confessions, so the length of time in which torture was permitted was limited, and confessions made under torture were not valid unless confirmed after the torture had ceased. If the confession was retracted, it was not permissible to recommence the torture; blam the heretic immediately.

A witch-hunting manual written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, an Inquisitor of the Catholic Church, and first published in Germany in 1487. Jacob Sprenger's name is also attached to the book, though it is unclear if he did anything more than endorse it. The book, whose title translates to "Hammer of the Witches" is virulently misogynistic, though acknowledging that both men and women can be witches. The book proposed encouraged the use of torture in to extract confessions in ways that were not actually legal under the laws of the Inquisition. The book's original endorsement was probably forged; the Inquisition actually discouraged the use of this manual by their witch-hunters, but that did not prevent laymen from using it.

Although some writers have claimed that the book was pretty much the cornerstone of a major anti-witchcraft movement and judges and priests all over Europe had a copy, HistoryMarchesOn and it is not thought to be near as influential as once thought. Most theologians of Kramer's time condemned the book for recommedning unethical and illegal procedures, and for being inconsistent with established Christian dogma on demonology, while the various Inquisitions had higher standards for evidence and ethics than the book proposed and witchcraft was never something they were especially interested in prosecuting, often maintaining a skepticism on whether witches even existed.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Inquisition's standards for what was permissible when using torture were higher than Kramer's. They understood that torture could result in false confessions, so the length of time in which torture was permitted was limited, and confessions made under torture were not vald unless confirmed after the torture had ceased. If the confession was retracted, it was not permissible to recommence the torture.

The chief crimes witches are accused of in the ''Malleus Maleficarum'' are the working of evil magic and making a DealWithTheDevil in order to obtain this power. [[SarcasmMode Women are, of course, more susceptible to TheDevil due to their more carnal nature.]] Oddly enough, some of the most frequent crimes these sex-crazed sirens are accused of is [[InsaneTrollLogic stealing men's penises and causing impotency.]] [[InfantImmortality Baby-killing]] and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]] were also apparently popular witch practices, often together.

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