{"collection":"Paganism & Neopaganism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/pag/mm/mm03c00a.htm","path":"pag/mm/mm03c00a.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/pag/mm/mm03c00a.htm","text":"Which is the last Part of this Work. How the Process is to be Concluded by the Pronouncement of a Definite and Just Sentence\nHAVING by the grace of God\nexamined the proper means of arriving at a knowledge of the heresy of\nwitchcraft, and having shown how the process on behalf of the faith should be\ninitiated and proceeded with, it remains to discuss how that process is to be\nbrought to a fitting termination with an appropriate sentence.\nHere it is to be noted that this heresy, as was shown in the beginning of this\nLast Part, is not to be confused with other simple heresies, since it is\nobvious that it is not a pure and single crime, but partly ecclesiastical and\npartly civil. Therefore in dealing with the methods of passing sentence, we\nmust first consider a certain kind of sentence to which witches are in the\nhabit of appealing, in which the secular judge can act on his own account\nindependently of the Ordinary. Secondly, we shall consider those in which he\ncannot act without the Ordinary. And so thirdly it will be shown how the\nOrdinaries can discharge themselves of their duties.\nNext: Question XVII Of Common Purgation, and especially of the Trial of Red-hot Iron, to which Witches Appeal","title":"Malleus Maleficarum Part 3 The Third Head","type":"page"}