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  • My first attempt to decode malleus maleficarum focused on the repeating "mal".

    Malleus Maleficarum James Killus 2008

  • 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 2004

  • 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

  • Hein - rich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, Malleus maleficarum, trans.

    WITCHCRAFT HELEN P. TRIMPI 1968

  • Malleus maleficarum, and in the judicial guides of the

    WITCHCRAFT HELEN P. TRIMPI 1968

  • Malleus maleficarum (1487?) it was akin to heresy not to believe in the reality of night-riding.

    WITCHCRAFT HELEN P. TRIMPI 1968

  • [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

  • -- 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

  • 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

  • _malleus maleficarum_, or hammer for witches (drawn out by a clergyman and two inquisitors appointed by Innocent VIII.), was principally intended.

    The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

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