Its first part emphasizes that any person who disbelieves in the subject of this book is a heretic, and this text by Heinrich Kraemer and Johann Sprenger led to about sixty thousand deaths.
Its composition was ordered as a fulfillment of Exodus 22:18, in the bull Summis Desiderantes by Innocent VIII. Its sections include "remedies prescribed against hailstorms" and the always exciting "how, as it were, they deprive man of his virile member." Its first part emphasizes that any person who disbelieves in the subject of this book is a heretic, and this text by Heinrich Kraemer and Johann Sprenger led to about sixty thousand deaths. For 10 points, name this book which described how to find, try, and execute practitioners of sorcery, a 1487 text that sparked the North European witch hunts.
Its composition was ordered as a fulfillment of Exodus 22:18, in the bull Summis Desiderantes by Innocent VIII.
{Malleus Maleficarum} or The {Hammer of Witches}