The "Malleus Maleficarum" was ______.
A) a medical manual designed to help Renaissance physicians treat abnormal behavior
B) the first diagnostic manual that correctly labeled some mental health problems according to their behavioral symptoms
C) the holy ritual used to help priests perform exorcisms
D) a manual for helping inquisitors identify suspected witches

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The "Malleus Maleficarum" was a manual written in 1486 by two inquisitors, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, to instruct other inquisitors on how to identify, interrogate, and convict suspected witches. It contained detailed instructions on how to conduct witch trials and was used as a guide for the persecution of thousands of people, mostly women, during the European witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries.

The "Malleus Maleficarum" Was ______