The Bible Condemns Witchcraft

[Picaro]

'Witchcraft' covered a lot of crimes, like poisoning your husband, probably a common practice in ages where wife-beating drunkenness was common, for instance. In any event, most churches had dismissed 'magic' and 'witchcraft' as nothing but a pagan peasant superstition by the Renaissance. And Yes, most peasants were still mostly pagan even by the 19th century. Some still are, especially Caribbean and Latin Americans. Burning 'witches' is a pagan thing, not a Christian thing, no matter what the deviants keep trying to tell you.

 

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The witch hunter’s bible was referred to in Latin as the Malleus Maleficarum, which translates to mean The Hammer of the Witches.

This text was written in 1486, published in 1487, and consisted of 256 pages of facts proving that witches were real and must be killed.

A man named Heinrich Kramer, one of the most infamous witch hunters in history, eventually became the author of The Hammer of the Witches. His initial motivation for writing the text was to prove his theory to many of his critics because he had, thus far, failed as a witch hunter.

The most powerful endorsement the Hammer ever saw was the Papal Bull, a document signed by the Pope himself stating an official church opinion, making it the only book on witchcraft to receive this approval.

It is said that in order to persuade the Pope to condone the Hammer of the Witches, Kramer brought him a sum of money.

Kramer’s favorite punishment for witchcraft is called the “strappado,” which is a device that attaches to the wrists and pulls upward, hanging its victims by their arms until they dislocate.

In Kramer’s first successful trial, he implements this type of torture until two women confess to committing acts of demonic sorcery; for this, they were burned alive.