Malleus Maleficarum: Hammer of the Witches

A manual of demonology and witchcraft from medieval Europe, the Malleus Maleficarum is an infamous treatise defining methods for identifying, interrogating, and executing supposed witches.

''Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.'' (Exodus 22:18 KJV)

First written and published in 1486 by German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer, this treatise was republished with additions from a second author, Ja...