Compendium Maleficarum book By Francesco Maria Guazzo

Compendium Maleficarum preserves Francesco Maria Guazzo's early modern account of alleged witchcraft in an edition edited by Montague Summers. Its descriptions reveal beliefs and fears that helped shape the persecution of people accused of witchcraft.

Read as a historical document rather than a reliable account of supernatural events or a contemporary witch's manual, it offers insight into the language of accusation and religious superstition. The claims in the text should not be treated as established facts.