Heinrich Kramer > 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

“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

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

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

“Whether Children can be Generated by Incubi and Succubi.”
― 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

“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

“über alle beliebigen Ketzereien zu inquirieren, vornehmlich aber über die in jetzigen Zeiten gedeihende Ketzerei der Hexen, und zwar durch fünf Metropolitankirchen, nämlich von Mainz, Köln, Trier, Salzburg und Bremen, mit aller Befugnis, gegen solche bis zur letzten Vertilgung vorzugehen, nach”
― Heinrich Kramer, Der Hexenhammer: Erster Teil

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

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