maleficorum

Updated: January 29, 2026

By having consulted the Malleus maleficorum, that terrible code of Jacob Sprenger which permits the Church wholesale burnings of necromancers and sorcerers, Des Esseintes recognized in the witches' Sabbath, all the obscene practices and all the blasphemies of sadism.

J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans - Against the Grain