The ‘Malleus Maleficarum,’ a medieval handbook, was used to try and execute supposed witches. Its influence lasted for centuries – including at the Salem Witch Trials. Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe ...

Written in a nine-month frenzy in the late 1400s after a failed attempt to prosecute witches, Malleus Maleficarum changed the ...

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