The Hammer of the Feline

A Manuscript for Submission

TheHammerof the Feline

A Manuscript By

John William McAbee

The Ill-Considered Loves of Heinrich Kramer

An Unauthorized Account of the Witch-Hunter Who Fell for a Witch, Her Nine Cats, and a Potted Herb Garden He Could Not Quite Bring Himself to Condemn.

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The Fresh Ink of Orthodoxy

“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”

Exodus 22:18, a verse considerably easier to hold in the abstract.

“In this way the malice of women, especially the evil of women’s dispositions, exceeds all the malice of men.”

Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum, Part I, Question VI (who, we should note, had not yet met Walburga of the Lower Gate).

“Mraow.”

Barnaby the one-eared cat, Chapter Seventeen.

Compiled from the marginalia of a man who should have known better.

1505 · Kroměříž — John William McAbee