The Malleus Maleficarum Quotes

“But the devils cannot interfere with the stars.”
― Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum

“Besides, since impotency in this act is sometimes due to coldness of nature, or some natural defect, it is asked how it is possible to distinguish whether it is due to witchcraft of not. Hostiensis gives the answer in his Summa (but this must not be publicly preached): When the member is in no way stirred, and can never perform the act of coition, this is a sign of frigidity of nature; but when it is stirred and becomes erect, but yet cannot perform, it is a sign of witchcraft.”
― Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum

“Witches who in this way sometimes collect male organs in great numbers, as many as twenty or thirty members together, and put them in a bird's nest, or shut them up in a box, where they move themselves like living members, and eat oats and corn.”
― Heinrich Kramer, The Malleus Maleficarum

“And so in this twilight and evening of the world, when sin is flourishing on every side and in every place, when charity is growing cold, the evil of witches and their iniquities superabound”
― Montague Summers, The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger

“But devils are subservient to certain influences of the stars, because magicians observe the course of certain stars in order to evoke the devils.”
― Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum

“there are three kinds of suspicion—a light suspicion, a serious suspicion, and a grave suspicion.”
― Montague Summers, The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger

“It is a most certain and most Catholic opinion that there are sorcerers and witches who by the help of the devil, on account of a compact which they have entered into with him, are able, since God allows this, to produce real and actual evils and harm, which does not render it unlikely that they can also bring about visionary and phantastical illusions by some extraordinary and peculiar means.”
― Montague Summers, The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger

“an idea merely kept to oneself is not heresy unless it be afterwards put forward, obstinately and openly maintained, it should certainly be said that persons such as we have just mentioned are not to be openly condemned for the crime of heresy”
― Montague Summers, The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger

“pythons”
― Montague Summers, The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger

“Blessed is the man who has a virtuous wife,”
― Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum

“Whether Children can be Generated by Incubi and Succubi.”
― Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum

“It is obvious that there is a vast difference between all these causes, circumstances, and happenings.”
― Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum

“Whoever believes that any creature can be changed for the better or the worse, or transformed into another kind or likeness, except by the Creator of all things, is worse than a pagan and a heretic. And so when they report such things are done by witches it is not Catholic, but plainly heretical, to maintain this opinion.”
― Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum

“Malleus Maleficarum”
― Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum (El martillo de los brujos)

“BULA DE INOCENCIO VIII”
― Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum (El martillo de los brujos)

“mental influence over others, and in some cases such mental influence might be a good one, but it is the motive which makes it evil.”
― Montague Summers, The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger

“Femina92 from fe minus”
― Montague Summers, The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger

“God punishes by means of bad Angels, as He often punished the People of Israel with various diseases, truly and actually visited upon their bodies. Therefore the member is equally subject to such visitations.”
― Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum