Heinrich kramer malleus maleficarum the hammer of witches set forth the attitude that women were

Heinrich set forth the attitude that women were cunning and deceitful. The Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches is the best-known treaty of witchcraft, written by Catholic Clergyman Heinrich Kramer which endorses the extermination of witches thus he developed a legal and theological theory. Most of those accused were women consisting o outcasts and other suspicious people i. e, Old women, Midwives, Jews, Poets, and Gypsies.