Malleus Maleficarum
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
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