# Compendium Maleficarum

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Compendium Maleficarum
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This edition is of 1275 copies only, this copy being numbered  615
Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited Bungay Suffolk
Table of Contents
The First Book
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| Ch.I | Ch.I | The Nature and Extent of the Force of Imagination | 01 |
| Ch. | II | Of Artificial Magic | 03 |
| Ch. | III | Whether this Magic can produce True Effects | 07 |
| Ch. | IV | That Witches Effect their Marvels with the Help of the Devil | 09 |
| Ch. | V | The Men of Old Accredited Witches with Marvellous Deeds | 11 |
| Ch. | VI | Of the Witches’ Pact with the Devil | 13 |
| Ch. | VII | By their Terrible Deeds and Imprecations Witches Produce Rain and Hail, etc. | 19 |
| Ch. | VIII | The Power of Witches over External Things | 22 |
| Ch. | IX | Whether the Devil can Truly Enrich His Subjects | 25 |
| Ch. | X | Whether Witches Can by their Art Create any Living Thing | 28 |
| Ch. | XI | Whether there Truly are Incubus and Succubus Devils; and Whether Children can be Generated by Copulation with Them | 30 |
| Ch. | XII | Whether Witches are Really Transported from Place to Place to their Nightly Assemblies | 33 |
| Ch. | XIII | Whether Witches can Transmute Bodies from One Form to Another | 50 ​ |
| Ch. | XIV | Whether Witches have Power to Make Beasts Talk | 53 |
| Ch. | XV | Whether the Devil can Make Men Insensible to Torture | 55 |
| Ch. | XVI | Whether by Witchcraft and Devil’s Work the Sexes can be Interchanged | 57 |
| Ch. | XVII | Whether the Spirits of the Dead can Appear to Men | 59 |
| Ch. | XVIII | Of Apparitions of Demons, or Spectres | 73 |
| Ch. | XIX | That Cacodemons Exercise their Magic Powers of their Own Will | 80 |
The Second Book
Dealing with the various kinds of witchcraft, and certain other matters which should be known
| Ch. | I | Of Soporific Spells | 083 |
| Ch. | II | Witches use Human Corpses for the Murder of Men | 088 |
| Ch. | III | Of Witches’ Poisons | 090 |
| Ch. | IV | Of Tying the Points | 091 |
| Ch. | V | Of Incendiary Witchcraft | 095 |
| Ch. | VI | The Devil Wishes to Perpetuate the Race of Witches | 096 |
| Ch. | VII | Of the Various Ways by which Witches Vent their Spite upon the Human Race | 098 |
| Ch. | VIII | Of the Different Diseases Brought by Demons | 105 |
| Ch. | IX | Why God Permits the Devil so to Busy Himself with Witchcraft | 111 |
| Ch. | X | The Laws Observed by Witches in Causing and in Curing Sickness | 121 |
| Ch. | XI | Witches Use something of Religion in Healing Sickness | 123 |
| Ch. | XII | Threatening or Beating Witches is the Best Method of Removing the Spells cast by Them | 124 |
| Ch. | XIII | After the Many Blasphemies Committed by Witches, the Demon at last Tries to Induce them to Kill Themselves with Their Own Hands | 129 |
| Ch. | XIV | Upon Those who have once Fallen into his Power the Devil keeps a Tenacious Grip, even when They stand Tortured before Their Judges, or in Holy Places, or wherever They may Be | 132 |
| Ch. | XV | A Summary in a Few Words of All the Crimes of Witches | 135 ​ |
| Ch. | XVI | The Devil Deceives by means of False Revelations or Apparitions | 136 |
| Ch. | XVII | Of the Appeal to God | 147 |
| Ch. | XVIII | Of the Trial by Single Combat | 149 |
| Ch. | XIX | Of Vulgar Purgation by Fire | 151 |
| Ch. | XX | Of Superstitious Folk | 160 |
The Third Book
Treating of the divine remedies for those who are bewitches, and of certain other matters
| Ch. | I | Whether it is Lawful to Remove a Spell in Order to Heal One that is Bewitched | 163 |
| Ch. | II | How to Distinguish Demoniacs and Those who are Simply Bewitched | 167 |
| Ch. | III | Recent Examples of the Mercy of God and the Tyranny of the Devil | 171 |
| Ch. | IV | Of Divine and Supernatural Remedies | 177 |
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