Malleus Maleficarum

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Malleus Maleficarum
	translated by Montague Summers
	Introduction to the Malleus  Maleficarum
Introduction to the 1948 Version
Malleus Maleficarum Part 1
	Question I. Whether the Belief that  there are such Beings as Witches is so Essential a Part of the Catholic  Faith that Obstinacy to maintain the Opposite Opinion manifestly  savours of Heresy.
	Question II. If it be in Accordance  with the Catholic Faith to maintain that in Order to bring about some  Effect of Magic, the Devil must intimately co-operate with the Witch,  or whether one without the other, that is to say, the Devil without the  Witch, or conversely, could produce such an Effect.
	Question III. Whether Children can  be Generated by Incubi and Succubi.
	Question IV. By which Devils are the  Operations of Incubus and Succubus Practised?
	Question V. What is the Source of  the Increase of Works of Witchcraft? Whence comes it that the Practice  of Witchcraft hath so notably increased?
	Question VI. Concerning Witches who  copulate with Devils. Why is it that Women are chiefly addicted to Evil  superstitions?
	Question VII. Whether Witches can  Sway the Minds of Men to Love or Hatred.
	Question VIII. Whether Witches can  Hebetate the Powers of Generation or Obstruct the Venereal Act.
	Question IX. Whether Witches may  work some Prestidigatory Illusion so that the Male Organ appears to be  entirely removed and separate from the Body.
	Question X. Whether Witches can by  some Glamour Change Men into Beasts.
	Question XI. That Witches who are  Midwives in Various Ways Kill the Child Conceived in the Womb, and  Procure an Abortion; or if they do not this Offer New-born Children to  Devils.
	Question XII. Whether the  Permission of Almighty God is an Accompaniment of Witchcraft.
	Question XIII. Herein is set forth  the Question, concerning the Two Divine Permissions which God justly  allows, namely, that the Devil, the Author or all Evil, should Sin, and  that our First Parents should Fall, from which Origins the Works of  Witches are justly suffered to take place.
	Question XIV. The Enormity of  Witches is Considered, and it is shown that the Whole Matter should be  rightly Set Forth and Declared.
	Question XV. It is Shown that, on  Account of the Sins of Witches, the Innocent are often Bewitched, yea,  Sometimes even for their Own Sins.
	Question XVI. The Foregoing Truths  are Set out in Particular, this by a Comparison of the Works of Witches  with Other Baleful Superstitions.
	Question XVII. A Comparison of  their Crimes under Fourteen Heads, with the Sins of the Devils of all  and every Kind.
	Question XVIII. Here follows the  Method of Preaching against and Controverting Five Arguments of Laymen  and Lewd Folk, which seem to be Variously Approved, that God does not  Allow so Great Power to the Devil and Witches as is involved in the  Performance of such Mighty Works of Witchcraft.
Malleus Maleficarum Part 2
	Question I. Of those against whom  the Power of Witches availeth not at all.
	Chapter I. Of the several Methods by  which Devils through Witches Entice and Allure the Innocent to the  Increase of that Horrid Craft and Company.
	Chapter II. Of the Way whereby a  Formal Pact with Evil is made.
	Chapter III. How they are  Transported from Place to Place.
	Chapter IV. Here follows the Way  whereby Witches copulate with those Devils known as Incubi.
	Chapter V. Witches commonly perform  their Spells through the Sacraments of the Church. And how they Impair  the Powers of Generation, and how they may Cause other Ills to happen  to God's Creatures of all kinds. But herein we except the Question of  the Influence of the Stars.
	Chapter VI. How Witches Impede and  Prevent the Power of Procreation.
	Chapter VII. How, as it were, they  Deprive Man of his Virile Member.
	Chapter VIII. Of the Manner whereby  they Change Men into the Shapes of Beasts.
	Chapter IX. How Devils may enter  the Human Body and the Head without doing any Hurt, when they cause  such Metamorphosis by Means of Prestidigitation.
	Chapter X. Of the Method by which  Devils through the Operations of Witches sometimes actually possess men.
	Chapter XI. Of the Method by which  they can Inflict Every Sort of Infirmity, generally Ills of the Graver  Kind.
	Chapter XII. Of the Way how in  Particular they Afflict Men with Other Like Infirmities.
	Chapter XIII. How Witch Midwives  commit most Horrid Crimes when they either Kill Children or Offer them  to Devils in most Accursed Wise.
	Chapter XIV. Here followeth how  Witches Injure Cattle in Various Ways.
	Chapter XV. How they Raise and Stir  up Hailstorms and Tempests, and Cause Lightning to Blast both Men and  Beasts.
	Chapter XVI. Of Three Ways in which  Men and Women may be Discovered to be Addicted to Witchcraft: Divided  into Three Heads: and First of the Witchcraft of Archers.
	Question II. Introduction, wherein  is Set Forth the Difficulty of this Question.
	Chapter I. The Remedies prescribed  by the Holy Church against Incubus and Succubus Devils.
	Chapter II. Remedies prescribed for  Those who are Bewitched by the Limitation of the Generative Power.
	Chapter III. Remedies prescribed  for those who are Bewitched by being Inflamed with Inordinate Love or  Extraordinary Hatred.
	Chapter IV. Remedies presribed for  those who by Prestidigitative Art have lost their Virile Members or  have seemingly been Transformed into the Shapes of Beasts.
	Chapter V. Prescribed Remedies for  those who are Obsessed owing to some Spell.
	Chapter VI. Prescribed Remedies; to  wit, the Lawful Exorcisms of the Church, for all Sorts of Infirmities  and Ills due to Witchcraft; and the Method of Exorcising those who are  Bewitched.
	Chapter VII. Remedies prescribed  against Hailstorms, and for animals that are Bewitched.
	Chapter VIII. Certain Remedies  prescribed against those Dark and Horrid Harms with which Devils may  Afflict Men.
Malleus Maleficarum Part 3
	The Third Head. Which is the last  Part of this Work. How the Process is to be Concluded by the  Pronouncement of a Definite and Just Sentence
	General and Introductory. Who are  the Fit and Proper Judges in the Trial of Witches?
	Question I. The Method of Initiating  a Process
	Question II. Of the Number of  Witnesses
	Question III. Of the Solemn  Adjuration and Re-examination of Witnesses
	Question IV. Of the Quality and  Condition of Witnesses
	Question V. Whether Mortal Enemies  may be Admitted as Witnesses
	Question VI. How the Trial is to be  Proceeded with and Continued. And how the Witnesses are to be Examined  in the Presence of Four Other Persons, and how the Accused is to be  Questioned in Two Ways
	Question VII. In Which Various  Doubts are Set Forth with Regard to the Foregoing Questions and  Negative Answers. Whether the Accused is to be Imprisoned, and when she  is to be considered Manifestly Taken in the Foul Heresy of Witchcraft.  This is the Second Action
	Question VIII. Which Follows from  the Preceding Question, Whether the Witch is to be Imprisoned, and of  the Method of Taking her. This is the Third Action of the Judge
	Question IX. What is to be done  after the Arrest, and whether the Names of the Witnesses should be made  Known to the Accused. This is the Fourth Action
	Question X. What Kind of Defence  may be Allowed, and of the Appointment of an Advocate. This is the  Fifth Action
	Question XI. What Course the  Advocate should Adopt when the Names of the Witnesses are not Revealed  to him. Ths Sixth Action
	Question XII. Of the Same Matter,  Declaring more Particularly how the Question of Personal Enmity is to  be Investigated. The Seventh Action
	Question XIII. Of the Points to be  Observed by the Judge before the Formal Examination in the Place of  Detention and Torture. This is the Eighth Action
	Question XIV. Of the Method of  Sentencing the Accused to be Questioned: and How she must be Questioned  on the First Day; and Whether she may be Promised her Life. The Ninth  Action
	Question XV. Of the Continuing of  the Torture, and of the Devices and Signs by which the Judge can  Recognize a Witch; and how he ought to Protect himself from their  Spells. Also how they are to be Shaved in Parts where they use to  Conceal the Devil's Masks and Tokens; together with the due Setting  Forth of Various Means of Overcoming the Obstinacy in Keeping Silence  and Refusal to Confess. And it is the Tenth Action
	Question XVI. Of the fit Time and  of the Method of the Second Examination. And it is the Eleventh Action,  concerning the Final Precautions to be Observed by the Judge
	Question XVII. Of Common Purgation,  and especially of the Trial of Red-hot Iron, to which Witches Appeal
	Question XVIII. Of the Manner of  Pronouncing a Sentence which is Final and Definitive
	Question XIX. Of the Various  Degrees of Overt Suspicion which render the Accused liable to be  Sentenced
	Question XX. Of the Firth Method of  Pronouncing Sentence
	Question XXI. Of the Second Method  of Pronouncing Sentence, when the Accused is no more than Defamed
	Question XXII. Of the Third Kind of  Sentence, to be Pronounced on one who is Defamed, and who is to be put  to the Question
	Question XXIII. The Fourth Method  of Sentencing, in the Case of one Accused upon a Light Suspicion
	Question XXIV. The Fifth Manner of  Sentence, in the Case of one under Strong Suspicion
	Question XXV. The Sixth Kind of  Sentence, in the Case of one who is Gravely Suspect
	Question XXVI. The Method of  passing Sentence upon one who is both Suspect and Defamed
	Question XXVII. The Method of  passing Sentence upon one who hath Confessed to Heresy, but is still  not Penitent
	Question XXVIII. The Method of  passing Sentence upon one who hath Confessed to Heresy but is Relapsed,  Albeir now Penitent
	Question XXIX. The Method of  passing Sentence upon one who hath Confessed to Heresy but is  Impenitent, although not Relapsed
	Question XXX. Of One who has Confessed to Heresy,  is Relapsed, and is also Impenitent
	Question XXXI. Of One Taken and  Convicted, but Denying Everything
	Question XXXII. Of One who is  Convicted but who hath Fled or who Contumaciously Absents himself
	Question XXXIII. Of the Method of  passing Sentence upon one who has been Accused by another Witch, who  has been or is to be Burned at the Stake
	Question XXXIV. Of the Method of  passing Sentence upon a Witch who Annuls Spells wrought by Witchcraft;  and of Witch Midwives and Archer-Wizards
	Question XXXV. Finally, of the  Method of passing Sentence upon Witches who Enter or Cause to be  Entered an Appeal, whether such be Frivolous or Legitimate and Just