Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger: Malleus maleficarum

Glossary

• Augustine Saint Augustine of Hippo, a church father of the fourth/fifth centuries
• Canaanite a historical/biblical people who inhabited the region around modern-day Israel
• Canon Canon Episcopi, a ninth-century document on witchcraft
• Eucharist the sacrament of Holy Communion, in which, according to Catholicism, the body and blood of Christ, in the form of bread and wine, is consumed
• Hussites a Christian movement begun by Jan Hus in fifteenth-century Bohemia
• Isidore Saint Isidore, the archbishop of Seville, Spain, in the early seventh century
• Jebusite an early Canaanite tribe
• Nider Johannes Nider, a German theologian
• Pronouncements the University of Paris Pronouncements of 1398, written by academics to declare magic to be real and dangerous, in contradiction to church doctrine that magic is imaginary
• Sign of the Cross the ritual crossing of oneself by touching the forehead, the breast, and the shoulders to signify the cross on which Christ died
• St. Gregory a sixth-century church father