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08-28-2008, 02:55 PM
|  | T.B.F.K.A.R.S-armhead.net | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: U.S.A & Japan
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| | | Manuscript of the Malleus maleficarum !
"the most influential and widely used handbook on witchcraft."
The classic evocation of this deranged misogyny is the Malleus maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches), published by Catholic inquisition authorities in 1485-86. "All wickedness," write the authors, "is but little to the wickedness of a woman. ... What else is woman but a foe to friendship, an unescapable punishment, a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, domestic danger, a delectable detriment, an evil nature, painted with fair colours. ... Women are by nature instruments of Satan -- they are by nature carnal, a structural defect rooted in the original creation." (Quoted in Katz, The Holocaust in Historical Context, Vol. I, pp. 438-39.) "The importance of the Malleus cannot be overstated," argues Ben-Yehuda: 
It was to become the most influential and widely used handbook on witchcraft. ... Its enormous influence was practically guaranteed, owing not only to its authoritative appearance but also to its extremely wide distribution. It was one of the first books to be printed on the recently invented printing press and appeared in no fewer than 20 editions. ... The moral backing had been provided for a horrible, endless march of suffering, torture, and human disgrace inflicted on thousands of women. (Ben-Yehuda, "The European Witch Craze," p. 11.) Woman in this world have struggled to get as far as we have. Yet I read an old 14th century book like this and realize, we have not stepped so far as to say we are not part of this grotesque and atrocious past. That we always should stand our ground.
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08-28-2008, 03:39 PM
|  | chanel meth pipe. | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: 7th ring of hell?
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| | | i wonder what kathleen hannah would have to say about this literary materpiece. she'd write a song yeah?
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08-28-2008, 04:24 PM
|  | Crackbabble | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Brazil Indiana
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| | | Fuck that book, seriously. Fuck that. |
08-28-2008, 05:37 PM
|  | bluebirds | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: at the tragedy sale
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| | | This is mad stuff, I looked into it when I first got to uni and was overwhelmed by the amount of information I could access in such a huge library. I read a really interesting book about this, will try to look through my library records online tomorrow to find out the title in case any of you want to know more.
You look at the quotes and laugh - or I do - but this was the justification for killing thousands of women (and more men than you might expect). The credulity of the public and the misogyny of those in power never ceases to amaze me. Today Switzerland pardoned the last witch murdered in Europe. There's an article about it on the Independent website. |
08-28-2008, 06:56 PM
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| | Here are writings about the madness that is still going on . I will never discredit the suffering of witches. Even now in times of war woman and men alike are getting tortured for what they do and believe. It is truly hideous. And sickens me. Quote: |
A trend of predominantly male victimization may also be evident in West Africa, where a bizarre wave of accusations of "penis-snatching" has come to light. The Reuters news agency reported in 1996 that "eight men in Accra, Ghana, were accused of using witchcraft to snatch penises. Their motivation was allegedly to return the sexual organs in return for cash. Mobs attacked them ... two died and six were seriously injured. The police examined all the alleged victims and found their genitals intact. ... [But] the 'victims' believed that sorcerers only had to touch them to make the genitals shrink or disappear completely." ("'Witches' steal penises in Ghana," Reuters dispatch, January 17, 1996.) D. Trull reported in 1997 that "the killings of alleged 'penis snatchers'" had been reported "along the west coast from Cameroon to Nigeria." (See Trull, "Witches Protection Program".)
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Other reports of witch-hunting vigilantism have come from Congo, where "The Congolese Human Rights Observatory ... announced that more than 60 people had been burned or buried alive since 1990 -- including 40 in 1996. The victims were accused, often by members of their own family, of being witches." (See "South Africa Witch Killings", citing Reuters dispatch, October 2, 1996.) In the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), some 14,000 children in the capital, Kinshasa, alone have been accused of sorcery and expelled from their homes; "the unlucky ones are murdered by their own family members before they escape." (See Jeremy Vine, "Congo witch-hunt's child victims", BBC News, December 22, 1999. For a recent report on accused child witches in Congo, see James Astill, Congo casts out its 'child witches', The Guardian (UK), 11 May 2003.)
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and their are thousands of Congolese children expelled from their homes for "sorcery." |
08-28-2008, 09:21 PM
|  | Running Blind | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Frozen Garden
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| | I fuckin hate this book! I was mightily disgusted by it and its misogyny... Yes... us witches can make priest's penises disappear! Such is our power! 
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08-28-2008, 09:39 PM
|  | bedroom revolutionary | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: under neon loneliness
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| | | There are child abuse cases here in the UK committed by superstitious immigrants upon their children if they're suspected of witchcraft. It's terrifying.
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