Malleus Maleficarum
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The Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise about witchcraft. It was written by German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer and first published in th
Title page of the seventh Cologne edition of the Malleus Maleficarum, 1520 (from the University of Sydney Library)
Title page of an edition dated 1669
Burning of three alleged witches in Baden, Switzerland (1585), by Johann Jakob Wick
The execution of alleged witches in Central Europe, 1587
Salem witch trials
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirt
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Fanciful representation of the Salem witch trials, lithograph from 1892
Two alleged witches being accused in the Salem witch trials, 1892 engraving
1688 portrait of Increase Mather by Joan van der Spriet
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