The Malleus Malificarum
[Currently under construction: more to be added every few days]
The Malleus Malificarum is available from Dover Publications, New York,
edited by Montague Summers, 1971, rpt. 1981. The ISBN is [0-486-22802-9]
The Malleus Malificarum (the hammer of witches or the hammer against witches)
was written by two Dominican Roman Catholic priests, Heinrich Kramer and James
Sprenger. The Dominican order at that time in history was specifically responsible
for rooting out all forms of heresy.
The Malleus became the standard by which all governmental investigations of witchcraft
had to proceed. The Malleus was commissioned in what has now become a very famous
Papal