A new study in Theory and Society shows that the printing of witch-hunting manuals, particularly the Malleus maleficarum in 1487, played a crucial role in spreading persecution across Europe.

3. There was a best-selling handbook on how to hunt witches Malleus Maleficarum (which meant the Hammer of Witches) was published in 1487 by a German monk called Heinrich Kramer. It argued that ...

These are the smallest three bones in the human body. They’re called the malleus, the incus and the stapes, and they sit between the eardrum and the entrance to your inner ear, to the place ...