{"id":252944,"date":"2022-10-28T23:15:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T23:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=252741"},"modified":"2022-10-28T23:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T23:15:57","slug":"the-malleus-maleficarum-manual-of-witch-hunters-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/10\/28\/the-malleus-maleficarum-manual-of-witch-hunters-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"The Malleus Maleficarum, manual of witch-hunters everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astralcodexten.substack.com\/p\/book-review-malleus-maleficarum?r=2gay&amp;utm_medium=android\">From Scott Alexander&#8217;s website Astral Codex Ten<\/a>: &#8220;Did you know you can just buy the Malleus Maleficarum? You can go into a bookstore and say \u201cI would like the legendary manual of witch-hunters everywhere, the one that\u2019s a plot device in dozens of tired fantasy novels\u201d. They will sell it to you and you can read it. I recommend the Montague Summers translation. Not because it\u2019s good (it isn\u2019t), but because it\u2019s by an slightly crazy 1920s Catholic priest every bit as paranoid as his subject matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Malleus is traditionally attributed to 15th century theologians\/witch-hunters Henry Kramer and James Sprenger, but most modern scholars think Kramer wrote it alone, then added the more famous Sprenger as a co-author for a sales boost. The book has three parts. Part 1 is basically Summa Theologica, except all the questions are about witches. Part 2 is basically the DSM 5, except every condition is witchcraft. Part 3 is a manual for judges presiding over witch trials.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"300\" width=\"270\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/malleus-maleficarum-illustrated-edition9194258412698406469-270x300.jpg?resize=270%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252740\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Scott Alexander&#8217;s website Astral Codex Ten: &#8220;Did you know you can just buy the Malleus Maleficarum? You can go into a bookstore and say \u201cI would like the legendary manual of witch-hunters everywhere, the one that\u2019s a plot device in dozens of tired fantasy novels\u201d. They will sell it to you and you can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/10\/28\/the-malleus-maleficarum-manual-of-witch-hunters-everywhere\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Malleus Maleficarum, manual of witch-hunters everywhere&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}