The Witch's Hammer
A book written witch-hunt manual in 1486 written by Heinrich Kramer. Jacob Sprenger is also often attributed as an author basically saying that witchcraft did exist. The Malleus was used as a judicial case-book for the detection and persecution of witches By the 15th century witchcraft had resurfaced and had its penlites. It served as a guidebook and was designed to aid them in the identification,persecution,and the deaths of witches. It's a way to tell the marks of witches. The book was divided into three sections. The first was to answer skeptics who thought that witchcraft was just a superstition -- a view shared by some previous popes -- and attempted to prove that the practice of witchcraft was real -- that those practicing witchcraft really did make agreements with the …show more content…
The accused were often tortured to confess the truth. The Inquisition itself was established by Pope Gregory IX in 1233 to eliminate the Catharsis and other threats to church power. This mainly meant persecuting heretics labeled the “Free Spirit Movement”, a convenient banner for a highly diverse flourishing of animist or mystic thought. It is not used in today’s modern pagan/wiccan practices. Although you could use it as a history lesson for some. It is a book that was way back in 1486 and has nothing to do with today’s practices it has changed since then even though most people keep themselves in the closet to avoid the looks and talks. I would read the book to find out what happened back in the day kind of like a history lesson to know why and how they were back then. If people was wrongly accused back then without any proof what was going on to make them think that and that is what i would want to know. This is stuff that really happened the witch hunt and the burning's why did they have to suffer that
A book written witch-hunt manual in 1486 written by Heinrich Kramer. Jacob Sprenger is also often attributed as an author basically saying that witchcraft did exist. The Malleus was used as a judicial case-book for the detection and persecution of witches By the 15th century witchcraft had resurfaced and had its penlites. It served as a guidebook and was designed to aid them in the identification,persecution,and the deaths of witches. It's a way to tell the marks of witches. The book was divided into three sections. The first was to answer skeptics who thought that witchcraft was just a superstition -- a view shared by some previous popes -- and attempted to prove that the practice of witchcraft was real -- that those practicing witchcraft really did make agreements with the …show more content…
The accused were often tortured to confess the truth. The Inquisition itself was established by Pope Gregory IX in 1233 to eliminate the Catharsis and other threats to church power. This mainly meant persecuting heretics labeled the “Free Spirit Movement”, a convenient banner for a highly diverse flourishing of animist or mystic thought. It is not used in today’s modern pagan/wiccan practices. Although you could use it as a history lesson for some. It is a book that was way back in 1486 and has nothing to do with today’s practices it has changed since then even though most people keep themselves in the closet to avoid the looks and talks. I would read the book to find out what happened back in the day kind of like a history lesson to know why and how they were back then. If people was wrongly accused back then without any proof what was going on to make them think that and that is what i would want to know. This is stuff that really happened the witch hunt and the burning's why did they have to suffer that