Texts on witchcraft and demons, including works that argued the reality of witches, a royal treatise on demonology and catalogues of spirits. They record the beliefs of their authors and shaped the history of the witch trials. Historians use them to study the learned image of the witch and the demon in early modern Europe, and some of the works circulated widely in print. Members placed here so far include Malleus Maleficarum, Formicarius, Daemonologie, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum.
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Witchcraft, Demonology, and Folklore Texts (Esoteric Texts)
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Canon Episcopi
Witchcraft, Demonology, and Folklore Texts
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Daemonologie
Witchcraft, Demonology, and Folklore Texts
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Formicarius
Witchcraft, Demonology, and Folklore Texts
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Malleus Maleficarum
Witchcraft, Demonology, and Folklore Texts
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Pseudomonarchia Daemonum
Witchcraft, Demonology, and Folklore Texts
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Malleus Maleficarum (Wikipedia)
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The Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise about witchcraft.
Formicarius (Wikipedia)
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The Formicarius, written 1436-1438 by Johannes Nider during the Council of Florence and first printed in 1475, is the second book ever printed to discuss witchcraft (the first book being Alphonso de Spina's Fortalitium Fidei).
Daemonologie (Wikipedia)
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The widespread consensus is that King James wrote Dæmonologie in response to sceptical publications such as Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft.
Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Wikipedia)
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An abridgment of a grimoire similar in nature to the Ars Goetia (first book of The Lesser Key of Solomon), it contains a list of demons, and the appropriate hours and rituals to conjure them.
Canon Episcopi (Wikipedia)
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It does not believe witchcraft to be a real physical manifestation; this was an important argument used by the opponents of the witch trials during the 16th century, such as Johann Weyer.
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