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Later she introduced me to hotshot new media reporter Polly Sprenger who was fresh over from Wired News in San Francisco (Mike Butcher once described Polly to me as “the Red Rum of technology reporters” after they worked together on the shortlived Industry Standard Europe magazine).
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Later she introduced me to hotshot new media reporter Polly Sprenger who was fresh over from Wired News in San Francisco (Mike Butcher once described Polly to me as “the Red Rum of technology reporters” after they worked together on the shortlived Industry Standard Europe magazine).
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In the case of Kramer and Sprenger, the analysis is complicated by the manner in which they produced the text.
Archive 2008-01-01 James Killus 2008
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Popular hysteria about witchcraft reached its apotheosis with the publication of Jacob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramers Malleus Maleficarum The Witches Hammer in 1487.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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In one notorious account, Sprenger and Kraemer even claimed that witches possessed the power to remove a mans genitals, collecting as many as twenty or thirty members together, and putting them in a birds nest, or a box, where they move themselves like living members and eat oats and corn, as has been seen by many as it is a matter of common report.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Kramer and Sprenger had been named as witch hunters in a Papal decree in 1484 and they seem to have made a job of it.
Archive 2008-01-01 James Killus 2008
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In one notorious account, Sprenger and Kraemer even claimed that witches possessed the power to remove a mans genitals, collecting as many as twenty or thirty members together, and putting them in a birds nest, or a box, where they move themselves like living members and eat oats and corn, as has been seen by many as it is a matter of common report.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Kramer and Sprenger had been named as witch hunters in a Papal decree in 1484 and they seem to have made a job of it.
Malleus Maleficarum James Killus 2008
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Moreover, I was appalled by the way in which the words "" witch '' and "" woman '' were used synonymously throughout the "" Malleus, '' not only by the authors, Kramer and Sprenger, but in countless quotations from what Pope John Paul II calls "" fundamental Church doctrine, '' including Saint Thomas, Saint Augustine, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint John.
The Witch Within Me 2008
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In the case of Kramer and Sprenger, the analysis is complicated by the manner in which they produced the text.
Malleus Maleficarum James Killus 2008
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