into three parts--Things that pertain to Witchcraft; The Effects
of Witchcraft; and The Remedies for Witchcraft.

[73] Ennemoser (_History of Magic_), a modern and milder
Protestant, excepts to the general denunciations of Pope
Innocent ('who assumed this name, undoubtedly, because he
wished it to indicate what he really desired to be') by
Protestant writers who have used such terms as 'a scandalous
hypocrite,' 'a cursed war-song of hell,' 'hangmen's slaves,'
'rabid jailers,' 'bloodthirsty monsters,' &c.; and thinks
that 'the accusation which was made against Innocent could
only have been justly founded if the pope had not
participated in the general belief, if he had been wiser
than his time, and really seen that the heretics were no
allies of the devil, and that the witches were no heretics.'

[74] The complete title is 'MALLEUS MALEFICARUM in tres
partes divisus, in quibus I. Concurrentia ad maleficia; II.
Maleficiorum effectus; III. Remedia adversus maleficia. Et
modus denique procedendi ac puniendi maleficas abunde
continetur, praecipue autem omnibus inquisitoribus et divini
verbi concionatoribus utilis et necessarius.' The original
edition of 1489 is the one quoted by Hauber, _Bibliotheca
Mag._, and referred to by Ennemoser, _History of Magic_.

In this apology the editors are careful to affirm that they
_collected_, rather than _furnished_, their materials originally,
and give as their venerable authorities the names of Dionysius
the Areopagite, Chrysostom, Hilary, Augustin, Gregory I.,
Remigius, Thomas Aquinas, and others. The writers exult in the
consciousness of security, in spite of the attempts of the
demons, day and night, to deter them from completing their
meritorious labours. Stratagems of every sort are employed in
vain. In their judgment the worst species of human wickedness
sink into nothing, compared with apostasy from the Church and, by
consequence, alliance with hell. A genuine or pretended dread of
sorcery, and an affected contempt for the female sex, with an
extremely low estimate of its virtues (adopting the language of
the Fathers), characterises the opinions of the compilers.

Ennemoser has made an abstract from the 'Demonomagie' of Horst
(founded on Hauber's original work), of the 'Hexenhammer,' under
its three principal divisions. The third part, which contains the
Criminal Code, and consists of thirty-five questions, is the most
important sect