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Maleficium is the fifth album for Swedish heavy metal band Morgana Lefay.
Maleficium as a Latin term means "wrongdoing" or "mischief", and describes malevolent, dangerous, or harmful magic, "evildoing," or "malevolent sorcery". In general, the term applies to any magical act intended to cause harm or death to people or property. Maleficium can involve the act of poisoning or drugging someone.
In the Byzantine Empire astrologers (Lat. mathematici) were considered magical wrongdoers, and so were heretics.
The term appears in several historically important texts, notably in the Formicarius (printed 1475) and in the Malleus Maleficarum (1487).
The Knights Templar were accused by Philip IV of France of maleficium. The trial of the Knights Templar set a social standard for the popular belief in maleficium and witchcraft that contributed to the great European witch hunt.
Maleficium may refer to:
- Maleficium (sorcery), Latin term meaning mischief, or harmful magic
- Maleficium (band), Dutch Melodic Metal band
- Maleficium (album), a 1996 album by heavy metal band Morgana Lefay
- Malleus Maleficarum, 15th century treatise on witches
- Maleficium (Lorna Shore album), the third EP by deathcore band Lorna Shore