Once upon a time I began to read the Malleus Maleficarum, but became discouraged upon reading that the "modernized" transcription was heavily edited and even full passages changed to push someone else's religious agenda more than a century after the fact. What I had read thus far was wildly interesting, but knowing that it deviated from the original author's views made me put it down and leave it unfinished.

This version restores the document to its original intent and meaning, and provides a commentary for understanding many of the cultural aspects that are hard to grasp with our modern language, culture and religious understanding.

I know it to be a brilliant document for understanding the mindset of the period, what people thought the spiritual world was about and what it was capable of. I look forward to reading it.

"Whatever happens to people in acts of harmful magic happens with God's permission, but this is not the case when animals or other fruits of the earth are affected."

Thanks LeeLau! You found exactly the kind of thing that tickles my fancy.