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JAKOB SPRENGER (fl. 1500)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 737 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAKOB SPRENGER (fl. 1500)  , the Dominican inquisitor of Cologne, who with Heinrich Kramer (institor) published Malleus maleficarum or Hexenhammer, the standard textbook on
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witchcraft, especially in Germany . The
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book gives (r) evidences of witchcraft; (2) rules for discovering it; (3) proceedings for punishment .

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