maleficorum

Updated: May 29, 2025

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