books.google.com - Were witches real in the Middle Ages? This handbook on witchcraft, first published in 1628, claims to expose the entire practice and profession of witchcraft. Was used as support in the accusation of witches at the time, although we can recognize much of it today as being paranoid superstition by religious...http://books.google.com/books/about/Compendium_Maleficarum.html?id=QnlvkNsQYIIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCompendium Maleficarum