OOC: Malleus Maleficarum Options

[JackRipper]

This is our OOC thread to ask questions, show die rolls, and in the beginning work out any 'kinks' in character creation.







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Answer one of these four questions: (You may only answer one, and it must not be already answered)

what are the 3 names for the Malleus Maleficarum?

What is the name of the author(s)?

When was it written/published?

Who actually used the Malleus Maleficarum?

[DireRadiant]

Just nasty...

I'll do an easy one..

When was it written/published?
1487, generally accepted as publication date. But there may be editions from 1486 and 1485 as it was written around 1485.

[JackRipper]

Correct answer

[Cedric Rolfsson]

authors Henrick Kramer Jacob Sprenger

[JackRipper]

correct answer

[ARKARY]

I have no idea what any of that means.

[Cedric Rolfsson]

The joy of Wikipedia! Mwuahahahahaha! :evil:

[JackRipper]

Occassionaly I will be using actual books for reference/game prop type things. Info will be mostly right except possibly location. Some of the books are so rich in history(and the just plain cool factor) that I'd have been hard pressed to think up my own (so I didnt). For some of us it'll be a crashcourse in the occult (hey you did sign up for this).

[krayola red]

[DireRadiant]

[krayola red]

That reminds me of this movie I saw once about a guy who gets his hand lopped off in an auto accident, and the hand later comes back to murder him.

It would be a lot worse if it were a penis instead of a hand.

[Mekalus]

Who actually used the Malleus Maleficarum?
It served as a guidebook for Inquisitors during the Inquisition.

[DireRadiant]

[ARKARY]

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

[JackRipper]

Krayola: Correct answer

Mekalus: Incorrect answer

[JackRipper]

Mekalus you may still attempt to answer, but it is first right answer that gets the prize.

[DireRadiant]

[JackRipper]

[JackRipper]

The following is a list of goodies I'm handing out. I'm still thinking about some for the rest of you.

THIS LIST IS NOT DONE, SO DO NOT BE OFFENDED IF YOU DONT SEE YOUR NAME HERE, IT WILL BE SHORTLY.

G.nome: you own pieces to a set of Japanese armor. Very lightwieght, allows you to be very mobile. [pieces include: silk under coat, breastplate, neck guard, thigh piece, shin guards, and guantlets. You recovered this in your war against the bugs from a museum. Ballistic 4/ Impact 10]

DireRadiant: You own a cross of silver, reputed to be made from the silver platter John the Baptist's head was placed on. It is a Banishing Focus 2

Cedric: You have in your possession the (and I dont speak Arabic, so it's nonsence words)" Jai'lihs Fa'teheim" or the black book of blasphemies. It gives you a bonus to spirit names research, it also acts as a mentor spirit.[that's the good] It whispers to you constantly...even when you are most vulnerable, like sleeping. Every night you must fend off it's influence, the threshold is equal to the number of days you have used the book. (this includes research, and the bonus dice from the mentor spirit) [Dark King]

[Cedric Rolfsson]

Black is Aswad but I can't find Book or Transgression/Sin/Blaspheme.

[G.NOME]

[DireRadiant]

[krayola red]

In a strange time and a faraway land, a wise man once uttered: it's clobberin' time!

[G.NOME]

What should I picture?

Like these, maybe?

Or more like this?

edit:
Or something more form-fitting, probably.

Should I know anything special about this armor?

[Mekalus]

Note the "inquisition" happened over a period of 250 years and the Spanish Inquisition was something else entirely. The Spanish Inquisition was the way Ferdinand and Isabella maintained Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms which they had recently wrested control of from the Moors who were Islamic primarily. The "inquisition" to which I reffer was a period of time which also included the time of the Salem witch trials. I got my answers from the following site

http://www.malleusmaleficarum.org/

However if you prefer the wikipedia definition my answer still fits as the people who prosecuted/persecuted/hunted witches were commonly called "inquisitors" and the common naming of the courts in which the witch trials were held were called Inquisitors Courts. Setting that aside here is the direct quote from wikipedia

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"The Malleus Maleficarum ("The Hammer of Witches", “Witch Hammer”, or the "Hexenhammer") is arguably the most important treatise on prosecuting witches to have come out of the witch hysteria of the Renaissance. It is a comprehensive witch-hunter’s handbook first published in Germany in 1487 that grew into dozens of editions spread throughout Europe and had profound impact on witch trials on the Continent for about 200 years. This work is notorious for its use in the witch hunt hysteria which peaked in the mid-16th through mid-17th centuries"

Or you can read the above link. That's where my first answer came from. If I am still incorrect could you please point me to a site that I can read so I can be in the right frame of mind in character.
Summation Witch Hunters used it as did the prosecutors in witch trials(not to be compared with current judicial system prosecutors) as did anyone invlolved in the whole witch hunt hysteria mentioned.

editted several times for grammer and spelling...sheesh proofreading is your friend :D