Compendium Maleficarum determined to stay at home

determined to stay at home

the English poet laureate Alfred

sherif of nottingham

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Compendium Maleficarum determined to stay at homeThis extraordinary document, considered one of the most important manuals ever compiled on witchcraft, offers striking insight into the early seventeenth century mind and society's attempts to cope with the evils it saw manifested in sorcery. A collection of writings by the Ambrosian monk Francesco Maria Guazzo, the Compendium comprehensively and penetratingly describes the entire practice and profession of witchcraft. First published in 1608, the