Kramer therefore faced the problem of explaining why God allowed the Devil great power and why the Devil happily shared this power with the women who were supposedly seduced into serving him. The text of the Malleus shows that at the time it was written, people commonly believed that an all-powerful God would never allow witches to obtain the great power that men like Kramer attributed to them. Here are 10 notable absurdities from Kramer’s life and career. By writing it, Kramer has been credited with indirectly causing the torture and brutal death of an estimated 40,000–50,000 people who were suspected of witchcraft during the period of the great witch hunts. The Malleus, published in 1847, eventually became the main reference source for witch-hunters, to the extent that it has been referred to as “the witch-hunter’s Bible.” It was also without a doubt one of the most socially poisonous and paranoid books in all of history.
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He was the author of a how-to manual for witch-hunters called the Malleus Maleficarum ( Hammer of Witches). When it came to witch-hunting, Kramer literally wrote the book on it. He was the first person to effectively instigate a full-blown crusade against witches. He considered Satanic witchcraft a heretical “sect” and made it his personal mission to eradicate it from Europe.
Kramer became particularly infamous for his torturous methods of “convincing” people and for his deep hatred of witches. If he couldn’t convince them to confess and repent, then he would punish them, usually by burning them at the stake. It was his job to bring people back to the “true faith” of Roman Catholicism. As such, he traveled around, investigating potential heresies. Kramer, who was born around 1430 and died in 1505, was a German Dominican friar and a member of the Inquisition.
While The Last Witch Hunter got some pretty negative reviews, it’s nothing in comparison to Heinrich Kramer, the first witch-hunter to be officially sanctioned by the Catholic Church.