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.
