Compendium Maleficarum

Compendium maleficarum, collected in 3 books from many sources, showing the iniquitous and execrable operations of witches against the human race, and the divine remedies by which they may be frustrated

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Author Francesco Maria Guazzo
Translator E.A. Ashwin
Country Italy
Language Latin
Subject witchcraft, demonology
Genre witch hunter manuals
Publisher Apud Haeredes August
Publication date
 1608
Published in English
 1929
Pages 345
ISBN 978-84-8454-140-0
OCLC 561219090

Compendium Maleficarum is a witch-hunter's manual written in Latin by Francesco Maria Guazzo, and published in Milan, Italy in 1608.

It was widely regarded among contemporaries as the authoritative manuscript on Witchcraft and discusses witches’ pacts with the devil, and detailed descriptions of witches’ powers and poisons. It also contains Guazzo's classification of demons, based on a previous work by Michael Psellus.

Translations

The book was not translated into English until 1929, when this was accomplished under the direction of the witchcraft scholar Montague Summers.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Compendium Maleficarum by Francesco Maria Guazzo, translated by E.A. Ashwin, 1929.
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