Malleus maleficarum with Moira Marsh

The Malleus Maleficarum - Latin for 'The Hammer of Witches' is one of the most famous medieval treatises on witches. It was written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger. Its main purpose was to challenge all arguments against the existence of witchcraft and to instruct magistrates on how to identify, interrogate and convict witches. Moira Marsh has looked into the text.