MALLEUS MALEFICARUM OF KRAMER & SPRENGER - 1988 WITCHES' HAMMER WITCHCRAFT SATAN

MALLEUS MALEFICARUM OF HEINRICH KRAMER AND JAMES SPRENGERBook Details + Condition: Ayer Company Publishers (Salem, NH). Reprint Edition, 1988. Hardcover with dark red boards, and white titling (etc) to spine. 278 pages. Illustrated with engraved frontis portrait of Pope Innocent VIII. An uncommon reprint publication of the famous work, with Introductions, Bibliography and Notes by Montague Summers. In very good condition, with firm binding and a clean interior, free of markings.Dominican friars Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger were charged by Pope Innocent VIII, with the Bull of 1484, which had essentially ratified the Church's powers in dealing with witchcraft, heresy and other crimes. Their goal was to investigate witchcraft, and they traveled throughout Germany gathering local lore and legend for the MALLEUS MALEFICARUM (The Witches’ Hammer). First published in 1486, the work provides detailed instructions for identifying, trying, torturing and executing witches. It also presents