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    Heinrich Kramer (c. 1430 – 1505, aged 74-75), also known under the Latinized name Henricus Institor, was a German churchman and inquisitor. With his widely...
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    about witchcraft. It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer (under his Latinized name Henricus Institor) and first published in...
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  • stood trial accused of witchcraft in 1485. Her trial and acquittal led Heinrich Kramer to write Malleus Maleficarum, which was published two years later....
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    According to the Malleus Maleficarum, or Witches' Hammer, written by Heinrich Kramer (Institoris) in 1486, succubi collect semen from men they seduce. Incubi...
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    pp. 7, 103–109. Summers, Montague; Heinrich Kramer, James Sprenger (2000). The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger. Book Tree. pp...
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  • Wilhem Heinrich Kramer (1724 in Dresden – 13 October 1765) was a German physician and naturalist. Kramer studied in Vienna (Austria) then practiced medicine...
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    wearing bull horns as a crown.[citation needed] In Malleus Maleficarum, Heinrich Kramer wrote that demons can take the form of children, and that in this form...
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    Modern Europe, p. 49 Heinrich Institoris, Heinrich; Sprenger, Jakob; Summers, Montague. The Malleus maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger....
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    Sprenger as Heinrich Kramer's co-author. It has been claimed that Sprenger cannot be linked to any witch trial, that his personal relationship to Kramer was acrimonious...
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  • Witches') was a witch-hunting manual written in 1486 by two German monks, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger. It was used by both Catholics and Protestants for...
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