Compendium Maleficarum

Compendium Maleficarum is a witch-hunter's manual written in Latin by Francesco Maria Guazzo, and published in Milan, Italy in 1608.

Compendium maleficarum, collected in 3 books from many sources, showing the iniquitous and execrable operations of witches against the human race, and the divine remedies by which they may be frustrated
illustration from the original edition
AuthorFrancesco Maria Guazzo
TranslatorE. A. Ashwin
CountryItaly
LanguageLatin
Subjectwitchcraft, demonology
Genrewitch hunter manuals
PublisherApud Haeredes August
Publication date
1608
Published in English
1929
Pages345
ISBN978-84-8454-140-0
OCLC561219090

It discusses witches' pacts with the devil, and detailed descriptions of witches’ powers and poisons. It also contains Guazzo's classification of demons, based on a previous work by Michael Psellus.

Translations

The book was not translated into English until 1929, when this was accomplished under the direction of the witchcraft scholar Montague Summers.[1]

gollark: Is your strategy an extended "democracy" thing or what?
gollark: Okay, so I think I'll do the forgiving one by... taking the total defection count, and looking back (SOME VALUE)^that entries for badness, and defecting if detected.
gollark: I'll make `actually-forgiving-grudger`.
gollark: Well, yes, I was going to implement a forgiving one but then realized that that one was very good anyway.
gollark: Wow, very μhahahaha.

References
  1. Compendium Maleficarum by Francesco Maria Guazzo, translated by E. A. Ashwin, 1929.


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