Being a discourse by Ifor of Gwent for the edification of the populace of the Far Isles concerning the forms and guises of the foul art of witchcraft.
PART I - Whether it be Heresy to Deny the Power of Witchcraft
PART II - Concerning the Witchcraft of Archers
In future parts of this work, I shall discuss other means by which witches may harm mankind. And, among these, I shall elucidate how they may impede and prevent the power of procreation, and even as it were deprive a man of his virile member.
Those who would seek a definitive study of the practices of witchcraft and of the proper remedies thereto, are directed to the Malleus Maleficarum of the Dominicans Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, delegated inquisitors by the Bull of Pope Innocent VIII, Summis desiderantes affectibus, of 9 December 1484. (A translation into English by Montague Summers is available from Arrow Books, ISBN 0-09-944890-4.)
©1992 Trevor Barker. Originally published in Far Horizons, Vol. 5, No. 3.
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