Malleus Maleficarum

By Summers, Montague

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Title:	Malleus Maleficarum
Author:	Summers, Montague
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Excerpt
Introduction to the Malleus Maleficarum -- Introduction to the 1948 Version -- Malleus Maleficarum Part 1 -- 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. -- 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. -- Question III. Whether Children can be Generated by Incubi and Succubi. -- Question IV. By which Devils are the Operations of Incubus and Succubus Practised? -- 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? -- Question VI. Concerning Witches who copulate with Devils. Why is it that Women are chiefly addicted to Evil superstitions? -- Question VII. Whether Witches can Sway the Minds of Men to Love or Hatred. -- Question VIII. Whether Witches can Hebetate the Powers of Generation or Obstruct the Venereal Act. -- Question IX. Whether Witches may work some Prestidigatory Illusion so that the Male Organ appears to be entirely removed and separate from the Body. -- Question X. Whether Witches can by some Glamour Change Men into Beasts. -- Question XI. That Witches who are Midwives in Various Ways Kill the Child Conceived in the Womb, and Procure an Abortion; or if they do not this Offer New-born Children to Devils. -- Question XII. Whether the Permission of Almighty God is an Accompaniment of Witchcraft. -- Question XIII. Herein is set forth the Question, concerning the Two Divine Permissions which God justly allows, namely, that the Devil, the Author or all Evil, should Sin, and that our First Parents should Fall, from which Origins the Works of Witches are justly suffered to take place. -- Question XIV. The Enormity of Witches is Considered, and it is shown that the Whole Matter should be rightly Set Forth and Declared. 1 -- 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. -- Question XVI. The Foregoing Truths are Set out in Particular, this by a Comparison of the Works of Witches with Other Baleful Superstitions. -- Question XVII. A Comparison of their Crimes under Fourteen Heads, with the Sins of the Devils of all and every Kind. -- Question XVIII. Here follows the Method of Preaching against and Controverting Five Arguments of Laymen and Lewd Folk, which seem to be Variously Approved, that God does not Allow so Great Power to the Devil and Witches as is involved in the Performance of such Mighty Works of Witchcraft. -- Malleus Maleficarum Part 2 -- Question I. Of those against whom the Power of Witches availeth not at all. -- Chapter I. Of the several Methods by which Devils through Witches Entice and Allure the Innocent to the Increase of that Horrid Craft and Company. -- Chapter II. Of the Way whereby a Formal Pact with Evil is made. -- Chapter III. How they are Transported from Place to Place. -- Chapter IV. Here follows the Way whereby Witches copulate with those Devils known as Incubi. -- Chapter V. Witches commonly perform their Spells through the Sacraments of the Church. And how they Impair the Powers of Generation, and how they may Cause other Ills to happen to God's Creatures of all kinds. But herein we except the Question of the Influence of the Stars. -- Chapter VI. How Witches Impede and Prevent the Power of Procreation. -- Chapter VII. How, as it were, they Deprive Man of his Virile Member. -- Chapter VIII. Of the Manner whereby they Change Men into the Shapes of Beasts. -- Chapter IX. How Devils may enter the Human Body and the Head

Table of Contents
· Introduction to the 1948 Version · Malleus Maleficarum Part 1 · 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. · 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. · Question III. Whether Children can be Generated by Incubi and Succubi. · Question IV. By which Devils are the Operations of Incubus and Succubus Practised? · 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? · Question VI. Concerning Witches who copulate with Devils. Why is it that Women are chiefly addicted to Evil superstitions? · Question VII. Whether Witches can Sway the Minds of Men to Love or Hatred. · Question VIII. Whether Witches can Hebetate the Powers of Generation or Obstruct the Venereal Act. · Question IX. Whether Witches may work some Prestidigatory Illusion so that the Male Organ appears to be entirely removed and separate from the Body. · Question X. Whether Witches can by some Glamour Change Men into Beasts. · Question XI. That Witches who are Midwives in Various Ways Kill the Child Conceived in the Womb, and Procure an Abortion; or if they do not this Offer New-born Children to Devils. · Question XII. Whether the Permission of Almighty God is an Accompaniment of Witchcraft. · Question XIII. Herein is set forth the Question, concerning the Two Divine Permissions which God justly allows, namely, that the Devil, the Author or all Evil, should Sin, and that our First Parents should Fall, from which Origins the Works of Witches are justly suffered to take place. · Question XIV. The Enormity of Witches is Considered, and it is shown that the Whole Matter should be rightly Set Forth and Declared.