malious malificarum

[ashyr]

anyone ever came across this book in there travels.

I cant find it anywhere.


if theres anyone who has read it can you tell me ?

how you found about it and what you were told

[lumukanda]

i actually bought a copy for my girlfriend when we first started going out.
it's basically a witch hunter's manual, full of all kinds of shit, tbh i've never read it cover to cover, but i have paged through it several times.
it's got all kinds of stuff about how to spot a witch, what the formalities of a trial are, and then all kinds of stories about how various people were bewitched.
my favourite one is of the man who disappeared one day, his wife didn't know what happened to him, and upon returning he told this beautiful story :
he was a sailor and one day, on shore leave he was hungry, so he asked 3 women for something to eat, so they gave him an egg. he ate the egg, but when he got back to his ship the other sailors chased him away, he couldn't figure out why, until he realised he'd been turned into a donkey. so e went back to the 3 women, and they made him work for them. this carried on for some time until one day the were walking past a church and he fell to his knees (?) and put his front hooves together in a praying position and by the grace of god he was turned back into a man.
i really love that story, then of course there's the one about the nun who ate a lettuce, but unbeknownst to her, it was actually the devil in the guise of a lettuce, nothing happened to her, but the also never explain why they thought this lettuce was the devil.

[hapax]

The Malleus maleficarum (Witch-Hammer) is on-line here (http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/mm/index.htm). It was the Inquisition's basic handbook for witch identification.

The Wiccan view that the Inquisition murdered "millions" or "hundreds of thousands" of witches in some sort of Holocaust is false anti-Catholic propaganda.

"Most scholars today believe that the actual number of executions is in the neighborhood of 40,000 [some argue for as few as 2,000]. The most thorough recent study of historical witchcraft is Witches and Neighbors (1996), by Robin Briggs, a historian at Oxford University. Briggs pored over the documents of European witch trials and concluded that most of them took place during a relatively short period, 1550 to 1630, and were largely confined to parts of present-day France, Switzerland, and Germany that were already racked by the religious and political turmoil of the Reformation. The accused witches, far from including a large number of independent-minded women, were mostly poor and unpopular. Their accusers were typically ordinary citizens (often other women), not clerical or secular authorities. In fact, the authorities generally disliked trying witchcraft cases and acquitted more than half of all defendants". Charlotte Allen: The Scholars and the Goddess, Atlantic Monthly; January 2001.

[ashyr]

look thats cool info, my friend just mentioned it to me and said he wanted to read it. so yeah cool . got my interest now.

but the also never explain why they thought this lettuce was the devil.

hahahah crazy