Kramer Claimed Witches Collected Penises

In the 15th century, a man named Heinrich Kramer wrote the Malleus Maleficarum, a witch-hunting manual that helped fuel the persecution of women accused of witchcraft. Kramer claimed that witches could make men's penises disappear through magical illusions. In the book's strangest account, witches supposedly collected 20 or 30 penises in birds' nests or boxes, where they moved like living creatures and ate oats or other grain. Kramer even described a man choosing a replacement from one of these nests, only to be told that the largest belonged to a parish priest.

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