OTHER INQUISITIONS: Malleus Maleficarum

The Malleus Maleficarum or the “Martillo to beat witches and their heresies with powerful hammer” is a book of 1486, written by two Dominican monks, Heinrich Kramer of Alsace and Jacob Sprenger of Basel, both of the Holy Roman Empire Germanic, today Switzerland. The witch hunt took place during the late Middle Ages, when this book appears which for the first time integrates in the same writing the origin of evil, its manifestations and the crimi…