| Malleus Maleficarum | | | Author:
| Rosen, Mike | | ISBN: | 978-1-59362-213-8 | | Publication Date: | Jan 2013 | | Publisher: | Slave Labor Books
| | Book Format: | Paperback | | List Price: | USD $12.95 | Book Description:
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- In 1487, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger wrote the MalleusMaleficarum, the premiere manual for exposing, capturing, prosecuting, andburning witches used by every right-thinking European magistrate of the latemiddle ages. Cartoonist Mike Rosen has adapted this warm and uplifting tomewhich fueled a wave of witch-hunting that lasted for nearly two centuries andcost nearly 60,000 people (mostly women) their lives.
- The adaptation's tongue-in-cheek tone exposes a...
More Description - In 1487, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger wrote the MalleusMaleficarum, the premiere manual for exposing, capturing, prosecuting, andburning witches used by every right-thinking European magistrate of the latemiddle ages. Cartoonist Mike Rosen has adapted this warm and uplifting tomewhich fueled a wave of witch-hunting that lasted for nearly two centuries andcost nearly 60,000 people (mostly women) their lives.
- The adaptation's tongue-in-cheek tone exposes a kind of paranoid thinkingwhich exists to this day in some circles and answeres all of those naggingeternal questions; Do witches kill newborn babies for use in their rituals? Canthey turn men into beasts? Can they steal mens' penises, collecting themin great numbers, to hide in, say, a bird's nest up in a tree, where theythen move around like squiggly phallic snakes and eat corn and oats? Finally,most importantly, do witches have sexual relations with devils? How do they havesexual relations with devils? And could we hear some more about these sexualrelations with devils? Nothing makes for a fun read like torture, murder,infanticide, and disembodied penises! Always fun and educational.
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