Compendium Maleficarum

Compendium maleficarum, collected in 3 books from many sources, showing the iniquitous and execrable operations of witches against the human race, and the divine remedies by which they may be frustrated

illustration from the original edition
Author	Francesco Maria Guazzo
Translator	E.A. Ashwin
Country	Italy
Language	Latin
Subject	witchcraft, demonology
Genre	witch hunter manuals
Publisher	Apud Haeredes August
Publication date	1608
Published in English	1929
Pages	345
ISBN
OCLC	561219090

Compendium Maleficarum is a witch-hunter's manual written in Latin by Francesco Maria Guazzo, and published in Milan, Italy in 1608.

It was widely regarded among contemporaries as the authoritative manuscript on Witchcraft(source?), and discusses witches’ pacts with the devil, and detailed descriptions of witches’ powers and poisons. It also contains Guazzo's classification of demons, based on a previous work by Michael Psellus.

The book was not translated into English until 1929, when this was accomplished under the direction of the witchcraft scholar Montague Summers.