Maleficae: poems

The liturgy of the word

Maleficae dictae a maleficiendo, seu a male de fide sentiendo

Incantation

Beginnings

The witch's apprenticeship

The witch remembers

Running from the village at midnight

Palmistry

The witch's apprenticeship

The witch remembers

Her early learnings

Running from the village at midnight

The villagers speak to their need

Incantation

Intentions

The goat's song

The virgin saves the village from drought

The witch's vision

The witch should lament the world

Palmistry

The witch discovers her body's secret

The witch is called and answers

The witch remembers

Her body as holding

The villagers make known their warning

The witch contemplates the meaning of time

The witch remembers

Her child, born a daughter Palmistry

The witch curses the man who betrayed her

The witch's daughter speaks of her mother

The liturgy of the word

Question IV: by which devils are the operations of incubus and Succubus practised?

The witch's testimony

Hour seven: in which the witch describeth the transformation of noble men unto beasts

The liturgy of the word

Hour thirteen: in which the witch revealth and describeth all unholy abuses of holy wives

The liturgy of the word

Question XI: that witches who are midwives in various ways kill the child conceived in the womb, and procure and abortion; or if they do not this offer new-born children to devils

The witch's testimony

Hour thirty eight: in which the witch responds to queries regarding her wicked use of herbs

The liturgy of the word

Question VI: Concerning witches who copulate with devils. Why is it the women are chiefly addicted to evil superstitions?

The witch's testimony

Hour twenty seven: in which the witch describeth the process of copulation with devils in the form of an honourable gentleman

The liturgy of the word

Chapter IV: here follows the way whereby witches copulate with those devils known as incubi

The witch's testimony

Hour forty six: in which the witch revealeth the various shapes that satan hath possessed

Chapter XV: how they raise and stir up hailstorms and tempests, and cause lightning to blast both men and beasts

The witch's testimony

Hour seventy two: in which the witch describeth her God

A public reading of charges

The witch remembers

The village in terms of its wants

Carmina maleficarum

Her burning

Palmistry

The witch's daughter still lives.