HAMMER WITCHES TO DEATH
“A LOT OF WOMEN ARE WITCHES AND SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH.”
– Catholic Inquisition –
THE WITCH HUNTS BURNED 100,000 TO 120,00 INNOCENT WOMEN.
“THE MOST BLOOD SOAKED BOOK IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY” –>
MALLEUS MALEFICARUM (THE WITCHES HAMMER) …
Catholic inquisition published a book that taught the Catholic Clergy how to locate, torture, and kill all free thinking women (and innocent).
In three centuries of witch hunts, somewhere between 60,000 to 100,000 innocent women were captured and burned alive at the stake (some say a million). The numbers estimated of the women killed comes from a survey of scholars specializing in that period of history. And there were thousands of women that escaped death but were severly punished.
More correctly translated as the “Hammer of the woman evildoers.” The book was written by two Dominican monks, and fervent Inquisition members, named Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger. The book became extremely popular. It was widely circulated for over 200 years. It went through twenty-nine editions from 1487 to 1669. It was considered the “Handbook for Witch Hunts.” It was revered not only by the Catholics but also the Protestants.
THERE WERE THREE PARTS TO THE BOOK.
The first part — is about the witches and the magic done by them by channeling the power of the Devil.
The second part — describes the various types of witches and the spells they do.
The third part — describes how they should be tried, by the religious churches and by the civil authorities. Most people think that the Inquisition was a religious action but the civil authorities were also deeply guilty.