"Fourth, the step consists of other kinds of torture devices being laid out before him if the person questioned under torture is unwilling to make an appropriate confession, and in his being told that he will have to endure them if he does not confess the truth. If even this cannot bring him to feel terror or tell the truth, then sentence to a second or third day of questioning under torture will be passed in his presence in the following manner (as a continuation and not a repetition of the torture, since it cannot be repeated unless new indications come to light). "We, the aforementioned judge (as above), assign to you such-and-such a day for the continuation of the questioning under torture, so that the truth should come from your own mouth." The whole should be put into the protocol by the notary."
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Christopher S. Mackay: The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum, pp. 547–548
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