Malleus Maleficarum Book Review
Malleus Maleficarum Latin for “The Hammer of Witches” – Hexenhammer in German. A witch-hunt manual in 1486 was written by Heinrich Kramer. He was one of the (inquisitor of the Catholic Church) along with Jacob Sprenger. Sprenger is also often attributed as an author basically saying that witchcraft did exist. It was submitted to the University on May 9, 1487 for endorsement. In 1490 this book was banned by Pope Paul IV.
By the 15th century witchcraft had resurfaced and had its penalties, the Malleus was used as a judicial case-book for the detection and persecution of witches. 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.
Maleficarum means harmful magic, or witchcraft, this manual was used to hammer out such practices. Kramer and Sprenger took the papal bull that appeared in the book's beginning to be the endorsement of the book, but was only to give them authorities as Inquisitors in certain lands. It was not the endorsement of the book Malleus Maleficarum. They were to deal with things such as witchcraft to heresy as Inquisitors. It gave the impression that it was approved by the Pope Innocent VIII, but it wasn't. They called upon Bishop of Strasburg to help …show more content…
them all possible support.
The Letter of Approbation was a falsified document. It was said the Kramer forged the document and Kramer was denounced by the Inquisitor in the 1490's. November 27 of 1538 Salazar advised not to believe all that was written in the Malleus Maleficarum. In 1481 the hunting manual was written by two Dominican monks charged by the Catholic Church.
A manual for hunting witches which took five years to create. First written in Latin, it was translated The Hammer of Witches. It was used for over three hundred years in the detection, torture, and how witches were put to death. It was made clear that witches would destroy property, sicken livestock and behave malevolently towards the community. With the publication of the Malleus became an intense witch hunt. The bull (Summus desiderantes) put the pursuit of witches in the neighborhood of promoting the Catholic faith and it threw the weight of the church behind witch hunts. The book argued that witches had made an agreement with the devil and cast harming spells.
The Witch hunts are still continuing today. In Nigeria they still go by the book, today is being used to identify some children as witches. They have been hacked to death, poisoned, buried alive. To get them to confess they beat them, slash them with knives, thrown into fires, and even had acid poured over them in an attempt to get a confession. The Christianity and traditional beliefs produce a deep rooted belief of the fear of witchcraft.
It seemed that hundreds were burned at the stake or drowned because of the believe written in the book. Any one could be accused and sentenced and put to death just because someone said they were witches. A lot worse , I'm sure, burned at the stake for their money and property. The church would get all valuable land, personal possessions or money once they were executed.
Such techniques as dunking was used, where the accused was merrily dunked in water and if they did, they where innocent, but if you lived you were said to reject baptism and the water would reject you. I wouldn't use the book or manuscript. It's unethical to me to judge someone and brand them a witch just for studying Herbology or owning a cat. So many were executed because of a lot of lies written in a book. It is not used in modern Pagan/Wiccan practices today, but other people still do and I myself could never understand why they had the right to make a judgment on anyone and still call themselves Christians. It's important to know because you need to know what happened and who they accused, this not a practice anyone should do. They did trouble things to men, women, and children.
The Witches Hammer book shouldn't have never written. 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 way? It is history of witchcraft it is always good to know the history. If you do not know the history, how will you know what happened to all those poor people, what made people be so cruel?
You need to know the history the true meaning of everything in order to fully understand what witches or not witches went through just because people thought in their minds that they were witches.
Those burned are mostly male witches of the sort described. There be half the city implicated for already professors, law-students, pastors, canons, vicars, and monks have here been arrested and burned. It is a book that is written to help bring out the fact that witchcraft did exist. They burned and tortured people to the confession was reviled, then they killed them it was an awful time to live in. People were scared that they would be next to be called a witch a lot of people died who didn't need
to.
If a witch confessed to quickly was deemed to be abandoned by the devil. If she did not and kept their “stubborn silence” was still protected by the devil and was more bound to the devil. Torture was essentially and exorcism. A witch had to confessed on her own or she couldn't be execute. Once she confussed they where turned over to secular authorities who had no limitations.
By the 15th century witchcraft had resurfaced and had its penalties, the Malleus was used as a judicial case-book for the detection and persecution of witches. 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.
Maleficarum means harmful magic, or witchcraft, this manual was used to hammer out such practices. Kramer and Sprenger took the papal bull that appeared in the book's beginning to be the endorsement of the book, but was only to give them authorities as Inquisitors in certain lands. It was not the endorsement of the book Malleus Maleficarum. They were to deal with things such as witchcraft to heresy as Inquisitors. It gave the impression that it was approved by the Pope Innocent VIII, but it wasn't. They called upon Bishop of Strasburg to help …show more content…
them all possible support.
The Letter of Approbation was a falsified document. It was said the Kramer forged the document and Kramer was denounced by the Inquisitor in the 1490's. November 27 of 1538 Salazar advised not to believe all that was written in the Malleus Maleficarum. In 1481 the hunting manual was written by two Dominican monks charged by the Catholic Church.
A manual for hunting witches which took five years to create. First written in Latin, it was translated The Hammer of Witches. It was used for over three hundred years in the detection, torture, and how witches were put to death. It was made clear that witches would destroy property, sicken livestock and behave malevolently towards the community. With the publication of the Malleus became an intense witch hunt. The bull (Summus desiderantes) put the pursuit of witches in the neighborhood of promoting the Catholic faith and it threw the weight of the church behind witch hunts. The book argued that witches had made an agreement with the devil and cast harming spells.
The Witch hunts are still continuing today. In Nigeria they still go by the book, today is being used to identify some children as witches. They have been hacked to death, poisoned, buried alive. To get them to confess they beat them, slash them with knives, thrown into fires, and even had acid poured over them in an attempt to get a confession. The Christianity and traditional beliefs produce a deep rooted belief of the fear of witchcraft.
It seemed that hundreds were burned at the stake or drowned because of the believe written in the book. Any one could be accused and sentenced and put to death just because someone said they were witches. A lot worse , I'm sure, burned at the stake for their money and property. The church would get all valuable land, personal possessions or money once they were executed.
Such techniques as dunking was used, where the accused was merrily dunked in water and if they did, they where innocent, but if you lived you were said to reject baptism and the water would reject you. I wouldn't use the book or manuscript. It's unethical to me to judge someone and brand them a witch just for studying Herbology or owning a cat. So many were executed because of a lot of lies written in a book. It is not used in modern Pagan/Wiccan practices today, but other people still do and I myself could never understand why they had the right to make a judgment on anyone and still call themselves Christians. It's important to know because you need to know what happened and who they accused, this not a practice anyone should do. They did trouble things to men, women, and children.
The Witches Hammer book shouldn't have never written. 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 way? It is history of witchcraft it is always good to know the history. If you do not know the history, how will you know what happened to all those poor people, what made people be so cruel?
You need to know the history the true meaning of everything in order to fully understand what witches or not witches went through just because people thought in their minds that they were witches.
Those burned are mostly male witches of the sort described. There be half the city implicated for already professors, law-students, pastors, canons, vicars, and monks have here been arrested and burned. It is a book that is written to help bring out the fact that witchcraft did exist. They burned and tortured people to the confession was reviled, then they killed them it was an awful time to live in. People were scared that they would be next to be called a witch a lot of people died who didn't need
to.
If a witch confessed to quickly was deemed to be abandoned by the devil. If she did not and kept their “stubborn silence” was still protected by the devil and was more bound to the devil. Torture was essentially and exorcism. A witch had to confessed on her own or she couldn't be execute. Once she confussed they where turned over to secular authorities who had no limitations.