Download or read book The Malleus Maleficarum written by Heinrich Kramer and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A handbook for hunting and punishing witches to assist the Inquisition and Church in exterminating undesirables. Mostly a compilation of superstition and folklore, the book was taken very seriously at the time it was written in the 15th century and became a kind of spiritual law book used by judges to determine the guilt of the accused"--From publisher description.