The Hammer of Witches (1486) - Page 10

⚠There is significant ink bleed-through (ghosting) from the reverse side of the leaf, which creates distracting shadows across the page, although the primary text remains legible.

...the Seventeenth Question: The text begins with the final syllable of the Latin Decimaseptima. How to proceed against a person reported by another witch malefica; a female practitioner of harmful magic who has already been burned to ashes original: "incinerata" but did not confess.

The Eighteenth Question: How to proceed against a person reported not as one who inflicts harmful magic, but as one who removes it This refers to "white" witches or folk healers who used magic to undo the spells of others..

The Nineteenth Question: How to proceed against magical archers sagittarios maleficos; sorcerers believed to use charms to ensure their arrows hit their mark or caused supernatural injury, enchanters of weapons, and any kind of necromancers nigromanticos; practitioners of dark magic, often involving the summoning of the dead or demons.

The Twentieth Question: Concerning witch-midwives obstetrices maleficae, who exceed all others in their harmful magical acts.

Concluding with the remedy of appeal, should any accused person seek such a refuge; and what an ecclesiastical or civil judge original: "iudici ecclesiastico seu ciuili" ought to do in such a case.