Its first part ends with a section offering rebuttals to five arguments offered by "laymen and lewd folk" that God does not allow power to a certain group.
Its first part ends with a section offering rebuttals to five arguments offered by "laymen and lewd folk" that God does not allow power to a certain group. Earlier "questions" in the first part inquire whether the title group can "hebetate the powers of generation" or make the "male organ appear to be entirely removed and separate from the body." This work was produced in response to the papal bull Summis Desiderantes, which had been promulgated by Innocent VIII. It was written by a dean of the University of Cologne and the professor at the University of Salzberg, Johann Sprenger and Heinrich Kraemer. FTP, name this book which appeared around 1486, a standard medieval work on the detection and exposure of witches.
Its first part ends with a section offering rebuttals to five arguments offered by "laymen and lewd folk" that God does not allow power to a certain group.
{Malleus Maleficarum} or {Hammer of Witches}