By Thomas Robisheaux
A younger mom dies in discomfort. used to be it a normal demise, murder—or witchcraft?
On the evening of the festive vacation of Shrove Tuesday in 1672 Anna Fessler died after consuming one among her neighbor's buttery brownies. may well it were poisoned? Drawing on bright court docket files, eyewitness debts, and an early post-mortem record, historian Thomas Robisheaux brings the tale to existence. Exploring one among Europe's final witch panics, he unravels why acquaintances and the court docket magistrates turned confident that Fessler's neighbor Anna Schmieg used to be a witch—one of numerous within the area—ensnared by way of the satan. as soon as arrested, Schmieg, the spouse of the neighborhood miller, and her daughter have been stuck up in a high-stakes drama that ended in fees of sorcery and witchcraft opposed to the whole kin. Robisheaux indicates how traditional occasions turned diabolical ones, prime magistrates to torture and switch a daughter opposed to her mom. In so doing he portrays a whole global stuck among superstition and modernity.
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