author: richard eves

... Inquisitors' handbook, Malleus Maleficarum — the Hammer of the Witches — became the textbook for European witch trials for centuries. It was the Malleus that imprinted on the popular European imagination the image of the witch not only ...

... death in the narrative of Seledik . This story , told to me by Lakana , also provides an instance of the assimilation of Christian beliefs by local cosmology : When a person dies people must kill a pig quickly . If it is a man who has died ...