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Malleus maleficarum

treatise on the prosecution of witches
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Malleus maleficarum
Sprenger, Jakob · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

Malleus maleficarum is a reference work[1]. It ranks in the top 0.88% of reference work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20,372 views/month, #1 of 114).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Heinrich Kramer[3], Jacob Sprenger[4]
  • Genre: theology[5], treatise[6]
  • Place of publication: Strasbourg[7]
  • Commons category: Malleus Maleficarum[8]
  • Language of work or name: medieval Latin[9]
  • Publication date: 1487[10]
  • Has edition or translation: Q107501032[11], Der Hexenhammer[12], The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum (Cambridge Press, 2009)[13], Malleus Maleficarum[14]
  • Title: MALLEUS MALEFICARUM, Maleficas, & earum hæresim, ut phramea potentissima conterens[15]
  • Different from: Le Marteau des sorcières[16]
  • Copyright status: public domain[17]
  • Form of creative work: prose[18]

Why It Matters

Malleus maleficarum has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

public domain theology

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Filesdotcomgigs · 2026-08-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Place of publication → Strasbourg
    Language of work or name → medieval Latin
    Has edition or translation → Q107501032, Der Hexenhammer, The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum (Cambridge Press, 2009) +1
    Instance of → reference work
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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