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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    THE THIRD PART RELATING TO THE JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS IN BOTH THE ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL COURTS AGAINST WITCHES AND INDEED ALL HERETICS Containing XXXV Questions in which are most Clearly set out the Formal Rules for Initiating a Process of Justice, how it should be Conducted, and the Method of Pronouncing Sentence. QUESTION I General and Introductory Who are the Fit and Proper Judges in the Trial of Witches ? page 194 THE FIRST HEAD Question I. The Method of Initiating a Process 205 Question II. Of the Number of the Witnesses 208 Question III. Of the Solemn Adjuration and Re-examination of Witnesses 209 Question IV. Of the Quality and Condition of Witnesses 209 Question V. Whether Mortal Enemies may be Admitted as Witnesses 209 THE SECOND HEAD Question VI. How the Trial is to be Proceeded with and Con¬ tinued. 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 210 Question VII. In Which Various Doubts are Set Forth with Regard to the Foregoing Questions and Negative Answers. Whether the Accused is to be Im¬ prisoned, and when she is to be considered as Manifestly Taken in the Foul Heresy of Witch¬ craft. This is the Second Action 213 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 214 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 216 Question X. What Kind of Defence may be Allowed, and of the Appointment of an Advocate. This is the Fifth Action 217 Question XI. What Course the Advocate should Adopt when the Names of the Witnesses are not Revealed to him. The Sixth Action 218 Question XII. Of the Same Matter, Declaring more Particularly how the Question of Personal Enmity is to be Investigated. The Seventh Action. page 220 Question XIII. Of the Points to be Observed by the Judge before the Formal Examination in the Place of Deten¬ tion and Torture. This is the Eighth Action 222 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 225 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 those Parts where they use to Conceal the Devil’s Masks and Tokens; to¬ gether with the due Setting Forth of Various Means of Overcoming their Obstinacy in Keeping Silence and Refusal to Confess. And it is the Tenth Action 227 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 230 THE THIRD HEAD Which is the last Part of this Work. How the Process is to be Concluded by the Pronounce¬ ment of a Definite and Just Sentence 232 Question XVII. Of Common Purgation, and especially of the Trial by Red-hot Iron, to which Witches Appeal 233 Question XVIII. Of the Manner of Pronouncing a Sentence which is Final and Definitive 235 Question XIX. Of the Various Degrees of Overt Suspicion which render the Accused liable to be Sentenced 236 Question XX. Of the First Method of Pronouncing Sentence 240 Question XXI. Of the Second Method of Pronouncing Sentence, when the Accused is no more than Defamed 241 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 242