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Henrich Kramer: Malleus Maleficarum

2023
The Malleus Maleficarum, commonly translated as the “Hammer of the Witches,” is an infamous late medieval treatise and guidebook for the identification and punishment of alleged witches. Written by the German Catholic clergyman and inquisitor Heinrich Kramer, the book is a compendium of literature on demonology as it was understood at the time of ...
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Judicial Procedure as Countermagic in Malleus Maleficarum

2023
This chapter discusses the section on judicial procedure in Malleus Maleficarum. In the middle of part 3, question 16 of Malleus Maleficarum, the inquisitors Kramer and Sprenger spell out a kind of theatrical finale in which the judge manages to expose the witch as a witch.
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Malleus Maleficarum: Scrutinizing Sorcery in Cameroon

Journal of African Law, 2018
AbstractDrawing on ethnographic research, this article reflects critically on the current involvement of the Cameroonian state in witchcraft accusations. Unlike other African states where witchcraft is connected to religion and culture and as such is far detached from economics and politics, post-colonial Cameroon associates witchcraft and other occult
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Nikolay Gogol: The Russian ‘Malleus Maleficarum’

1988
That Gogol had difficulty in dealing with women, both in life and in fiction, is no secret.3 However, in a consideration of women in Russian fiction one can hardly bypass a writer of such importance. He has acquired many reputations: as founder of the so-called ‘natural school’, as a champion of the oppressed, as a symbolist, a religious writer, a ...
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Henricus Institoris and Jacobas Sprenger: Malleus maleficarum 1486

2011
The Malleus maleficarum, popularly known as “The Hammer of Witches,” is a seminal work in the history of witchcraft. It was written in 1486 by two Dominican inquisitors, Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger, who were in charge of seeking out and eradicating heretics, or people who held beliefs in contradiction to Catholic doctrine, in the region of
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Another "Malleus Maleficarum"?

American Psychologist, 1972
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Malleus maleficarum. Zagorka, feminizam, antifeminizam

2011
Tekstovi objavljeni u ovom zborniku radovi su izlagačica s četvrtog po redu znanstvenog skupa "Marija Jurić Zagorka – život, djelo, naslijeđe", održanog 26. i 27. studenog 2010. u Zagrebu u sklopu Dana Marije Jurić Zagorke koje organiziraju Centar za ženske studije i Odsjek za komparativnu književnost zagrebačkoga Filozofskog fakulteta.
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