Still reading up on witches for a poem I am fiddling with. Today I got a book from Amazon called The Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of the witches) which was published around 1484. One of the things that interests me is comparing the witch craze with the War on Terror. It was translated by Montague Summers and this is from his 1948 introduction: "Jean Boudin the famous jurisconsult (1530-90)... gives it as his opinion that there existed not only in France, a complete organisation or witches, immensely wealthy, of almost infinite potentialities, most cleverly captained, with centres and cells in every district, utilising an espionage in every land, with high-placed adherents at court, with humble servitors in the cottage. This organisation, witchcraft, maintained a relentless and ruthless war against the prevailing order and settled state. No design was too treacherous, no betrayal was too cowardly, no blackmail too base and foul. The Masters lured their subjects with magnificent prom...
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