Compendium Maleficarum (Collection of Witches)

Contents50 chapters

1. 01CHAPTER I The Nature and Extent of the Force of Imagination
2. 02CHAPTER II
3. 03CHAPTER I - Of Artificial Magic
4. 04CHAPTER III Whether this Magic can produce True Effects
5. 05CHAPTER IV That Witches Effect their Marvels with the Help of the Devil
6. 06CHAPTER V - The Men of Old Accredited Witches with Marvellous Deeds
7. 07CHAPTER VI Of the Witches? Pact with the Devil
8. 08CHAPTER VII By their Terrible Deeds and Imprecations Witches Produce Rain and Hail, ete
9. 09CHAPTER VII The Power of Witches over External Things
10. 10CHAPTER IX Whether the Devil can Truly Enrich His Subjects
11. 11CHAPTER X Whether Witches Can by their Art Create any Living Thing
12. 12CHAPTER XI Whether there Truly are Incubus and Succubus Devils; andwhether Children can be Generated by Copulation with them
13. 13CHAPTER XII Whether Witches are Really Transported JSrom Place to Place to their Nightly Assemblies
14. 14CHAPTER XI Whether Witches can Transmute Bodies Srom One Form to Another
15. 15CHAPTER XIV Whether Witches have Power to Make Beasts Talk
16. 16CHAPTER XV Whether the Devil can Make Men Insensible to Torture.*
17. 17CHAPTER XVI Whether by Witchcraft and Devil’s Work the Sexes can be Interchanged
18. 18CHAPTER XVII Whether the Spirits of the Dead can Appear to Men
19. 19CHAPTER 15 that it is no common or ordinary thing for the souls of the dead to appear to the living; but that the appearance of Samuel and Moses in the
20. 20CHAPTER 17, writes as follows: The Saint was fearlessly abiding in a ghost-haunted house, when suddenly there appeared before the master of the house a
21. 21CHAPTER XVIII Of Apparitions of Demons, or Spectres
22. 22CHAPTER I, ““The Vampire in Greece and Rome,” Pp. 34-37
23. 23CHAPTER XIX That Cacodemons Exercise their Magic Powers of their Own Will
24. 24CHAPTER I Of Soporific Spells
25. 25CHAPTER II Witches use Human Corpses for the Murder of Men
26. 26CHAPTER III Of Witches’ Poisons
27. 27CHAPTER IV Of Tying the Points
28. 28CHAPTER V Of Incendiary Witchcraft
29. 29CHAPTER VI The Devil Wishes to Perpetuate the Race of Witches
30. 30CHAPTER VII Of the Various Ways by which Witches Vent their Spite upon the Human Race
31. 31CHAPTER VIII Of the Different Diseases Brought by Demons
32. 32CHAPTER 17 of the work above quoted. w Examples. A certain honest woman who had been legally married to one of the household of the Archduke formally deposed
33. 33CHAPTER IX Why God Permits the Devil so to Busy Himself with Witcheraft
34. 34CHAPTER X The Laws Observed by Witches in Causing and in Curing Sickness
35. 35CHAPTER XI Witches Use something of Religion in Healing Sickness
36. 36CHAPTER XII Threatening or Beating Witches is the Best Method of Removing the Spells cast by Them
37. 37CHAPTER XIII After the Many Blasphemies Committed by Witches, the Demon at last Tries to Induce them to Kill themselves with their Own Hands.*
38. 38CHAPTER XIV Upon Those who have once Fallen into his Power the Devil keeps a Tenacious Grip, even when They stand Tortured before Their Judges, or in Holy
39. 39CHAPTER XV A Summary in a Few Words of All the Crimes of Witches. EBASTIEN MICHAELIS in his Pneumalogie* gives an example of a sentence passed at Avignon in
40. 40CHAPTER XVI - The Devil Deceives and Seduces by means of False Revelations or Apparitions
41. 41CHAPTER XVII Of the Appeal to God
42. 42CHAPTER XVIII Of the Trial by Single Combat
43. 43CHAPTER XIX Of Vulgar Purgation by Fire
44. 44CHAPTER XX Of Superstitious Folk.*
45. 45CHAPTER I Whether it 1s Lawful to Remove a Spell in Order to Heal One that is Bewitched
46. 46CHAPTER II How to Distinguish Demoniacs,* and Those who are Simply Bewitched. iy bape peculiar symptoms of possession by demons through witchcraft are
47. 47CHAPTER III Recent Examples of the Mercy of God and the Tyranny of the Devil. a ARTIN DELRIO magicarum. V1. 2, sec. 3) narrates the following story, and says
48. 48CHAPTER IV Of Divine and Supernatural Remedies
49. 49CHAPTER 24 - _ Let us now come to some examples of all these remedies of which we have spoken. w Examples. 1. Of Faith. V4 Johann Nider in his Formicarius
50. 50CHAPTER 35 - COMPENDIUM BK. III. CH. IV. adulteress, and her son as having been conceived in adultery. The innocent woman bewailed her misfortune and took

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