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My first attempt to decode malleus maleficarum focused on the repeating "mal".
Malleus Maleficarum James Killus 2008
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By my sceptre and crown, the man stares as if he took his native prince for a warlock! us that are the very malleus maleficarum, the contunding and contriturating hammer of all witches, sorcerers, magicians, and the like; he thinks we are taking a touch of the black art outsells! —
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However, the same brand was found on members of a suspected coven in the village of Ulmdorf near Rothenberg in 1487, the year after a group of German inquisitors published the Malleus maleficarum.
Prime Evil Diana G. Gallagher 2001
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Hein - rich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, Malleus maleficarum, trans.
WITCHCRAFT HELEN P. TRIMPI 1968
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Malleus maleficarum, and in the judicial guides of the
WITCHCRAFT HELEN P. TRIMPI 1968
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Malleus maleficarum (1487?) it was akin to heresy not to believe in the reality of night-riding.
WITCHCRAFT HELEN P. TRIMPI 1968
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[1] _Malleus maleficarum maleficas et earum hæresim framea conterens_, auct.
The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church 1888
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-- By my sceptre and crown, the man stares as if he took his native prince for a warlock! us that are the very _malleus maleficarum_, the contunding and contriturating hammer of all witches, sorcerers, magicians, and the like; he thinks we are taking a touch of the black art outsells!
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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It's a lucky thing that Anders despises blood mages as much as the Chantry does, else he might have been executed as a suspected maleficarum long ago.
rpgcodex.net 2010
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_malleus maleficarum_, or hammer for witches (drawn out by a clergyman and two inquisitors appointed by Innocent VIII.), was principally intended.
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