"The following or a similar method of conjuring her to genuine tears if she is innocent and of restraining false tears can be followed by the judge (or priest) in the sentence. Putting a hand over the head of the denounced man (woman), he says, "I conjure you by the loving tears shed on the Cross for the salvation of this world by Our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the most passionate tears of His mother, the Most Glorious Virgin Mary, which were sprinkled over His wounds at eventide, and by all the tears shed here in this world by all the Saints and the Elect of God, from whose eyes He has now wiped every tear, that you should shed tears to the extent that you are innocent, but not at all if you are guilty. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost." (Sign of the Cross.) "Amen.""
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Christopher S. Mackay: The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum, pp. 549–550
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