The Bible clearly told the account of how certain angels fell from heaven and sought to bewitch and seduce humans, and Sprenger and Kramer issued a strict warning that to believe otherwise was to believe contrary to the true faith. Malleus Maleficarum strongly refuted all those who claimed that the works of demons exist only in troubled human minds. In 1486, Sprenger and Kramer published their Malleus Maleficarum, "A Hammer for Witches," which quickly became the " bible," the official handbook, of professional witch hunters. 1436 –1495), to squelch the power of Satan in the Rhineland. In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII (1432 –1492) so deplored the spread of witchcraft in Germany that he issued the papal bull Summis Desiderantes Affectibus and authorized two trusted Dominican inquistors, Henrich Institoris (Kramer) (c.
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