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1 DRAFTDRAFTTHEMALLEUSMALEFICARUMOFHEINRIC HKRAMERANDJAMESSPRENGERTRANSLATED WITHANINTRODUCTION, BIBLIOGRAPHY& NOTESBYTHEREVERENDMONTAGUESUMMERSL ayout Design, Editing & Formatting by Marc J. DriftmeyerAdobe Acrobat PDF CompliantCopyright July 2005. All Rights Reserved1 DRAFTDRAFTC ontentsContents2 List of Figures5 Editor s Note6 Preface9 Introduction 1948 Edition12 Introduction 1928 Edition18 Part I49 Questions I.. 50 Question II.. 60 Question III.. 72 Question IV.. 81 Question V.. 89 Question VI.. 103 Question VII.. 115 Question VIII.. 123 Question IX.. 128 Question XI.. 139 Question XII.. 140 Question XIII.. 146 Question XIV.. 150 Question XV.. 155 Question XVI.. 159 Question XVII.. 162 Question XVIII.. 1652 DRAFTDRAFT3 Part II170 Question I.. 171 Chapter I.

2 180 Chapter II.. 184 Chapter III.. 191 Chapter IV.. 197 Chapter V.. 205 Chapter VI.. 209 Chapter VII.. 211 Chapter VIII.. 216 Chapter IX.. 219 Chapter X.. 225 Chapter XI.. 232 Chapter XII.. 236 Chapter XIII.. 239 Chapter XIV.. 245 Chapter XV.. 248 Chapter XVI.. 252 Question II.. 259 Chapter I.. 269 Chapter II.. 274 Chapter III.. 278 Chapter IV.. 282 Chapter V.. 285 Chapter VI.. 291 Chapter VII.. 305 Chapter VIII.. 308 PARTIII311 General Introduction.. 312 First Head.. 327 Question I.. 328 Question II.. 332 Question III.. 334 Question IV.. 335 Question V.. 336 DRAFTDRAFT4 Second Head.. 337 Question VI.. 338 Question VII.. 342 Question VIII.. 344 Question IX.. 347 Question X.. 350 Question XI.. 352 Question XII.. 355 Question XIII.. 358 Question XIV.. 361 Question XV.

3 364 Question XVI.. 368 Third Head.. 371 Question XVII.. 372 Question XVIII.. 375 Question XIX.. 377 Question XX.. 382 Question XXI.. 384 Question XXII.. 386 Question XXIII.. 389 Question XXIV.. 391 Question XXV.. 394 Question XXVI.. 398 Question XXVII.. 401 Question XXVIII.. 404 Question XXIX.. 408 Question XXX.. 410 Question XXXI.. 412 Question XXXII.. 416 Question XXXIII.. 421 Question XXXIV.. 425 Question XXXV.. 430 Online HTML Introduction436 Online Introduction II.. 438 Editing Parameters.. 440 Notes on References.. 441 Notes on Deleted Links.. 442 Transcription vs. Scanning.. 443 Acknowledgements444 Letter of Approbation445 The Bull Of Innocent VIII447A Note Upon the Bibliography451 Bibliography451 Index455 DRAFTDRAFTList of Fig 1. Pencil sketch of accused Heretic.

4 95 DRAFTDRAFTE ditor s Note DOWHATTHOUWILTSHALLBE THEWHOLE OF THELAW The motivation behind this undertaking stems from the needs of the Occult Sciencesto have an adequate, albeit incomplete, typeset copy of the Malleus Maleficarum , both asan accessible historical resource and to know some of the ongoings that History revealswhen dogma enters the realms of Individual Freedom, effectively suffocating the HumanExperience to be nothing but a shell a Qlipphotic piece of excremental waste. It is thus myethical duty and honor to make sure in this Digital Age we have as complete a version of theMalleus Maleficarum possible: translators credited rightfully so are included in this digitaldocument. I chose to offer my LaTeX skills to reduce the over 700 page html version downto 431 pages currently.

5 As the completion of the translation comes to its culmination, so towill this PDF version. Regarding the use of SMALLCAPSandItalicglyph enhancements, Ihave made the concerted effort to make it clear that all DEIFIC references, in all Religionscited, are in smallcaps and thatLatin,Greek,Germanicand other languages cited in , I have italicized the references have taken the liberty of structurally combining passages to give it a more readablepresentation, so if any part of this tomb seems to drain your eyes feel free to send me feed-back and I will be sure to address those issues and when it seems to make sense modifythe layout and produce the changes in subsequent revisions. I also took it upon myself toapply all footnotes to their proper place at the foot of the page noted replacing the needfor a separate web page for each footnote.

6 This leads to a much more readable typos, and other extraneous grammatical errors are welcomed critiques and will be in-cluded in subsequent revisions to reflect a more correct edition. I have also taken the libertyto utilize small cap font substitution with the Palatino Type 1 Font that Adobe recognizeswithin Adobe Acrobat Reader. For Linux KPDF, GPDF and XPDF all recognize this fontvia LaTeX as mathpazo (Palatino Family glyph). The version of PDF included is AcrobatWriter PDF production is done with the LATEX 2"Publishing Frameworks and TEX PublishingSystem. The following packages were used to produce this publication: documentclass[twoside,english,letterpape r]{memoir} usepackage{babel}6 DRAFTDRAFTM alleus Maleficarum7 usepackage[square,curly,comma,sort] usepackage{natbib} usepackage{calc} usepackage[T1]{fontenc} usepackage{textcomp} usepackage{layouts} usepackage{alltt} usepackage{fixltx2e} usepackage{setspace} usepackage{url} usepackage{color} usepackage{graphicx} usepackage{pdfcolmk} usepackage[draft]{pdfdraftcopy} usepackage{fancyheadings} usepackage[pdftitle={The Malleus Malefi carum},colorlinks=true,linkcolor=red,url color=red,bookmarks=true,letterpaper]{hy perref}1 usepackage{memhfixc} usepackage{wrapfig}This document is written in LATEX 2", on the Debian Linux Sid distribution, within theKDE Desktop Environment and Kile LATEX 2"Editor.

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9 INTRODUCTION TOTHE1948 EDITION IS ALSO INCLUDED. TRANSLATION,NOTES,AND TWOINTRODUCTIONS BYMONTAGUESUMMERS. A BULL Malleus Maleficarum (The Witch Hammer), first published in 1486, is arguablyFigure :Pencil sketch of accused Hereticone of the most infamous books ever written,due primarily to its position and regard duringthe Middle Ages. It served as a guidebook forInquisitors during the Inquisition, and was de-signed to aid them in the identification, prose-cution, and dispatching of Witches. It set forth,as well, many of the modern misconceptions andfears concerning witches and the influence ofwitchcraft. The questions, definitions, and ac-cusations it set forth in regard to witches, whichwere reinforced by its use during the Inquisition,came to be widelyregarded as irrefutable beliefs are held even today by a major-ity of Christians in regard to practitioners of themodern revived religion of WITCHCRAFT, orWICCA.

10 And while the Malleus itself is largelyunknown in modern times, its effects have proved long lasting. At the time of the writing of9 DRAFTDRAFTM alleus Maleficarum10 The Malleus Maleficarum , there were many voices within the Christian community (schol-ars and theologians) who doubted the existence of witches and largely regarded such beliefas mere superstition. The authors of the Malleus addressed those voices in no uncertainterms, stating: Whether the Belief that there are such Beings as Witches is so Essentiala Part of the Catholic Faith that Obstinacy to maintain the Opposite Opinion manifestlysavours of Heresy. The immediate, and lasting, popularity of the Malleusessentially si-lenced those voices. It made very real the threat of one being branded a heretic, simply byvirtue of one s questioning of the existence of witches and, thus, the validity of the Inquisi-tion.