Malleus maleficarum / translated with an introduction, bibliography and notes by the Rev. Montague Summers.

  • Kraemer, Heinrich, -1508.
Date:
1928
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Credit: Malleus maleficarum / translated with an introduction, bibliography and notes by the Rev. Montague Summers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS r\oe INTRODUCTION xi A NOTE UPON THE BIBLIOGRAPHY xli THE BULL OF INNOCENT VIII xliii THE FIRST PART TREATING OF THE THREE NECESSARY CONCOMITANTS OF WITCHCRAFT WHICH ARE THE DEVIL, A WITCH. AND THE PERMISSION OF PART ONE 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 page i 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 12 Question III. Whether Children can be Generated by Incubi and Succubi 21 Question IV. By which Devils are the Operations of Incubus and Succubus Practised? 28 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? 31 Question VI. Concerning Witches who copulate with Devils. Why is it that Women are chiefly addicted to Evil Superstitions? 41 Question VII. Whether Witches can Sway the Minds of Men to Love or Hatred 48 Question VIII. Whether Witches can Hebetate the Powers of Generation or Obstruct the Venereal Act 54 Question IX. Whether Witches may work some Prestidigitatory Illusion so that the Male Organ appears to be entirely removed and separate from the Body 58 Question X. Whether Witches can by some Glamour Change Men into Beasts 61 ALMIGHTY GOD Question XI. That Witches who are Midwives in Various Ways Kill the Child Conceived in the Womb, and Pro¬ cure an Abortion; or if they do not this. Offer New-born Children to Devils page 66 Question XII. Whether the Permission of Almighty God is an Accompaniment of Witchcraft 66 Question XIII. Herein is set forth the Question concerning the Two Divine Permissions which God justly allows, namely, that the Devil, the Author of all Evil, should Sin, and that our First Parents should Fall, from which Origins the Works of Witches are justly suffered to take place 71 Solutions of the Arguments. Question XIV. The Enormity of Witches is Considered, and it is shown that the Whole Matter should be rightly Set Forth and Declared 73 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 77' • Question XVI. The Foregoing Truths are Set out in Particular, this by a Comparison of the Works of Watches with Other Baleful Superstitions 80 Question XVII. A Comparison of their Crimes under Fourteen Heads, with the Sins of the Devils of all and every Kind 82 Question XVIII. Here follows the Method of Preaching against and Controverting Five Arguments of Laymen and Lewd Folk) which seem to be Variously Ap¬ proved, that God does not Allow so Great Power to the Devil and Witches as is Involved in the Performance of such Mighty Works of Witch¬ craft 84 Vll