Malleus Maleficarum E-Book

Montague Summers

• Herausgeber: David De Angelis
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

This is the famous treatise on witches, written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, an Inquisitor of the Catholic Church, and was first published in Germany.

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Montague Summers

Malleus Maleficarum

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CONTENTS

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO THE MALLEUS MALEFICARUM

Introduction To The 1928 Version

Introduction To The 1948 Version

PART 1

Question 1. Whether the Belief that there are such Beings as Witches is so Essential...

Question 2. If it be in Accordance with the Catholic Faith to maintain that in Order to bring about...

Question 3. Whether Children Can Be Generated By Incubi And Succubi

Question 4. By Which Devils Are The Operations Of Incubus And Succubus Practised

Question 5. What Is The Source Of The Increase Of Works Of Witchcraft...

Question 6. Concerning Witches Who Copulate With Devils...

Question 7. Whether Witches Can Sway The Minds Of Men To Love Or Hatred

Question 8. Whether Witches Can Hebetate The Powers Of Generation...

Question 9. Whether Witches May Work Some Prestidigatory Illusion So That The Male...

Question 10. Whether Witches Can By Some Glamour Change Men Into Beasts...

Question 11. That Witches Who Are Midwives In Various Ways Kill The Child Conceived In The Womb...

Question 12. Whether The Permission Of Almighty God Is An Accompaniment Of Witchcraft

Question 13. Herein Is Set Forth The Question, Concerning The Two Divine Permissions...

Question 14. The Enormity Of Witches Is Considered, And It Is Shown That The Whole Matter...

Question 15. It Is Shown That, On Account Of The Sins Of Witches, The Innocent Are Often Bewitched...

Question 16. The Foregoing Truths Are Set Out In Particular...

Question 17. A Comparison Of Their Crimes Under Fourteen Heads, With The Sins Of The Devils...

Question 18. Here Follows The Method Of Preaching Against And Controverting Five Arguments...

PART 2

Question 1. Of Those Against Whom The Power Of Witches Availeth Not At All

Chapter 1. Of The Several Methods By Which Devils Through Witches Entice And Allure...

Chapter 2. Of The Way Whereby A Formal Pact With Evil Is Made

Chapter 3. How They Are Transported From Place To Place

Chapter 4. Here Follows The Way Whereby Witches Copulate With Those Devils Known As Incubi

Chapter 5. Witches Commonly Perform Their Spells Through The Sacraments Of The Church...

Chapter 6. How Witches Impede And Prevent The Power Of Procreation

Chapter 7. How, As It Were, They Deprive Man Of His Virile Member

Chapter 8. Of The Manner Whereby They Change Men Into The Shapes Of Beasts

Chapter 9. How Devils May Enter The Human Body And The Head Without Doing Any Hurt...

Chapter 10. Of The Method By Which Devils Through The Operations Of Witches Sometimes...

Chapter 11. Of The Method By Which They Can Inflict Every Sort Of Infirmity...

Chapter 12. Of The Way How In Particular They Afflict Men With Other Like Infirmities

Chapter 13. How Witch Midwives Commit Most Horrid Crimes When They Either Kill Children...

Chapter 14. Here Followeth How Witches Injure Cattle In Various Ways

Chapter 15. How They Raise And Stir Up Hailstorms And Tempests...

Chapter 16. Of Three Ways In Which Men And Women May Be Discovered To Be Addicted To Witchcraft...

Question 2. Introduction, Wherein Is Set Forth The Difficulty Of This Question

Chapter 1. The Remedies Prescribed By The Holy Church Against Incubus And Succubus Devils

Chapter 2. Remedies Prescribed For Those Who Are Bewitched By The Limitation Of The Generative Power

Chapter 3. Remedies Prescribed For Those Who Are Bewitched...

Chapter 4. Remedies Prescribed For Those Who By Prestidigitative Art Have Lost Their Virile...

Chapter 5. Prescribed Remedies For Those Who Are Obsessed Owing To Some Spell

Chapter 6. Prescribed Remedies; To Wit, The Lawful Exorcisms Of The Church...

Chapter 7. Remedies Prescribed Against Hailstorms, And For Animals That Are Bewitched

Chapter 8. Certain Remedies Prescribed Against Those Dark And Horrid Harms...

PART 3

General And Introductory

Question 1. The Method Of Initiating A Process

Question 2. Of The Number Of Witnesses

Question 3. Of The Solemn Adjuration And Re-Examination Of Witnesses

Question 4. Of The Quality And Condition Of Witnesses

Question 5. Whether Mortal Enemies May Be Admitted As Witnesses

Question 6. How The Trial Is To Be Proceeded With And Continued...

Question 7. In Which Various Doubts Are Set Forth With Regard To The Foregoing Questions...

Question 8. Which Follows From The Preceding Question, Whether The Witch Is To Be Imprisoned...

Question 9. What Is To Be Done After The Arrest, And Whether The Names Of The Witnesses...

Question 10. What Kind Of Defence May Be Allowed, And Of The Appointment Of An Advocate...

Question 11. What Course The Advocate Should Adopt When The Names Of The...

Question 12. Of The Same Matter, Declaring More Particularly How The Question Of...

Question 13. Of The Points To Be Observed By The Judge Before The Formal Examination...

Question 14. Of The Method Of Sentencing The Accused To Be Questioned...

Question 15. Of the Continuing of the Torture, and of the Devices and Signs by which the Judge...

Question 16. Of The Fit Time And Of The Method Of The Second Examination...

The Third Head. Which Is The Last Part Of This Work. How The Process Is To Be Concluded...

Question 17. Of Common Purgation, And Especially Of The Trial Of Red-Hot Iron, To Which Witches Appeal

Question 18. Of The Manner Of Pronouncing A Sentence Which Is Final And Definitive

Question 19. Of The Various Degrees Of Overt Suspicion Which Render The Accused Liable To Be Sentenced

Question 20. Of The Firth Method Of Pronouncing Sentence

Question 21. Of The Second Method Of Pronouncing Sentence, When The Accused Is No More Than Defamed

Question 22. Of The Third Kind Of Sentence, To Be Pronounced On One Who Is Defamed...

Question 23. The Fourth Method Of Sentencing, In The Case Of One Accused Upon A Light Suspicion

Question 24. The Fifth Manner Of Sentence, In The Case Of One Under Strong Suspicion

Question 25. The Sixth Kind Of Sentence, In The Case Of One Who Is Gravely Suspect

Question 26. The Method Of Passing Sentence Upon One Who Is Both Suspect And Defamed

Question 27. The Method Of Passing Sentence Upon One Who Hath Confessed To Heresy, But Is Still Not Penitent

Question 28. The Method Of Passing Sentence Upon One Who Hath Confessed To Heresy...

Question 29. The Method Of Passing Sentence Upon One Who Hath Confessed To Heresy...

Question 30. Of One Who Has Confessed To Heresy, Is Relapsed, And Is Also Impenitent

Question 31. Of One Taken And Convicted, But Denying Everything

Question 32. Of One Who Is Convicted But Who Hath Fled Or Who Contumaciously Absents Himself

Question 33. Of The Method Of Passing Sentence Upon One Who Has Been Accused By Another Witch...

Question 34. Of The Method Of Passing Sentence Upon A Witch Who Annuls Spells Wrought...

Question 35. Finally, Of The Method Of Passing Sentence Upon Witches Who Enter...

INTRODUCTION TO THE MALLEUS MALEFICARUM