do you know what the malleus maleficarum is?

Question

what it was used for?

and who used it?

Answer 1

It was the handbook used by inquisitors during the Inquisition. Supposedly, you could use the information it contained to determine whether or not a person was a witch. Of course, this included such nonsensical ideas as if a witch were dunked in water, she would rise to the surface, so she could be condemned as a witch. If she didn't she wasn't a witch, but what good did that do her? It killed her, so she couldn't appreciate that she had been vindicated, anyway.

Answer 2

The Malleus Maleficarum (The Witch's Hammer from Latin) was a book complied by the Catholic Church that was a guidebook on how to extract confessions from suspected witches. It was basically a book full of a lot of really horrible ways of torturing people and why witches were so evil.

Answer 3

The Malleus Maleficarum ("The Hammer of Witches", “Witch Hammer”, or the "Hexenhammer") is arguably the most important treatise on prosecuting witches to have come out of the witch hysteria of the Renaissance. It is a comprehensive witch-hunter’s handbook first published in Germany in 1487 that grew into dozens of editions spread throughout Europe and had profound impact on witch trials on the Continent for about 200 years. This work is notorious for its use in the witch hunt hysteria which peaked in the mid-16th through mid-17th centuries.

Answer 4

The Malleus Maleficarum ("The Hammer of Witches", “Witch Hammer”, or the "Hexenhammer") is arguably the most important treatise on prosecuting witches to have come out of the witch hysteria of the Renaissance. It is a comprehensive witch-hunter’s handbook first published in Germany in 1487 that grew into dozens of editions spread throughout Europe and had profound impact on witch trials on the Continent for about 200 years. This work is notorious for its use in the witch hunt hysteria which peaked in the mid-16th through mid-17th centuries.

Answer 5

The Malleus Maleficarum was also known as the Witches' Hammer. It was written by two German priests for the purpose of identifying and prosecuting witches.

Answer 6

... THE. MALLEUS MALEFICARUM. of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger ... The Malleus Maleficarum (The Witch Hammer), first published in 1486, is arguably one of the most infamous books ever ...

Answer 7

It was a text written by 2 priests (German priests I think). The title itself means Witches Hammer... it was used by many churches to find heretics (which at that time, was the same thing as a witch to those people). The Roman Catholic Church never "Officially" accepted the book, because of some of the things written in it... but it most certainly used the book to find "witches" or heretics against the Catholic Faith. It listed how one could "persuade", by use of torture, heretics to confess dancing naked under the moon with the devil in order to gain untold powers.

This is the book where many of the ideas about witches flying on brooms, kissing the devils butt, etc comes from. Very wild imaginations of 2 men who saw demons everywhere.

Answer 8

This is a manual that was used to perform Witch Hunts. Originally written in the 1400s and later translated in the 1920s sometime. Originally it was used by Pope Innocent VIII to justify the persecution of witches and heretics.

Answer 9

Text used by Inquisitors to aid in the identification, prosecution, and dispatching of Witches.

Answer 10

Yes, it was a book on witchcraft used by the inquisition to find witches.