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Malleus Maleficarum

By: SLG Publishing

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Graphic Novels (SLG Publishing)

Last Stocked on 5/24/2024

Product Info

Title
Malleus Maleficarum
Publisher
Category
Author
Mike Rosen
Publish Year
2013
Pages
136
Dimensions
5.5x8.3x.4"
NKG Part #
2148100931
Type
Softcover

Description

In 1487, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger wrote the Malleus Maleficarum, the premiere manual for exposing, capturing, prosecuting, and burning witches used by every right-thinking European magistrate of the late middle ages. Cartoonist Mike Rosen has adapted this warm and uplifting tome which fueled a wave of witch-hunting that lasted for nearly two centuries and cost nearly 60,000 people (mostly women) their lives.
The adaptation's tongue-in-cheek tone exposes a kind of paranoid thinking which exists to this day in some circles and answers all of those nagging eternal questions; Do witches kill newborn babies for use in their rituals? Can they turn men into beasts? Can they steal men's penises, collecting them in great numbers, to hide in, say, a bird’s nest up in a tree, where they then move around like squiggly phallic snakes and eat corn and oats? Finally, most importantly, do witches have sexual relations with devils? How do they have sexual relations with devils? And could we hear some more about these sexual relations with devils? Nothing makes for a fun read like torture, murder, infanticide, and disembodied penises! Always fun and educational.