Michael Shermer Quotes

It Was The Roman Catholic Church That First Articulated The Witch Theory Of Causality In Medieval Europe With The Papal Bull Of Innocent VIII In 1484, Summis Desiderantes Affectibus (Desiring With Supreme Ardor), Followed Two Years Later With The Catholic Clergyman Heinrich Kramer's Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer Of The Witch). The Latter Was A How-to Manual On Finding And Prosecuting Witches, Who, It Alleged, Were Able To Copulate With The Devil, Steal Men's Penises, Wreck Ships, Ruin Crops, Eat Babies, Turn Men Into Frogs, Shed No Tears, Cast No Shadow In The Sun, Have Hair That Could Not Be Cut, And Pretty Much Anything Considered To Be "devilish" And "wicked.

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