The Amber Witch : The Most Interesting Trial for Witchcraft Ever Known

By Schweidler, Mary

Book Id: WPLBN0000633953
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Amber Witch : The Most Interesting Trial for Witchcraft Ever Known
Author:	Schweidler, Mary
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Preface: In laying before the public this deeply affecting and romantic trial, which I have not without reason called on the title?page the most interesting of all trials for witchcraft ever known, I will first give some account of the history of the manuscript.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Amber Witch, 1 -- Mary Schweidler, 1 -- Preface, 2 -- Introduction, 4 -- The Seventh Chapter. HOW THE IMPERIALISTS ROBBED ME OF ALL THAT WAS LEFT, -- AND LIKEWISE BROKE INTO THE CHURCH AND STOLE THE VASA SACRA; ALSO -- WHAT MORE BEFELL US, 5 -- The Eighth Chapter. HOW OUR NEED WAXED SORER AND SORER, AND HOW I SENT -- OLD ILSE WITH ANOTHER LETTER TO PUDGLA, AND HOW HEAVY A MISFORTUNE -- THIS BROUGHT UPON ME, 9 -- The Ninth Chapter. HOW THE OLD MAID?SERVANT HUMBLED ME BY HER FAITH, -- AND THE LORD YET BLESSED ME HIS UNWORTHY SERVANT, 15 -- The Tenth Chapter. HOW WE JOURNEYED TO WOLGAST, AND MADE GOOD BARTER -- THERE, 17 -- The Eleventh Chapter. HOW I FED ALL THE CONGREGATION: ITEM, HOW I -- JOURNEYED TO THE HORSE FAIR AT GUeTZKOW, AND WHAT BEFELL ME THERE, 20 -- The Twelfth Chapter. WHAT FURTHER JOY AND SORROW BEFELL US: ITEM, HOW -- WITTICH APPELMANN RODE TO DAMEROW TO THE WOLFHUNT, AND WHAT HE -- PROPOSED TO MY DAUGHTER, 22 -- The Thirteenth Chapter. WHAT MORE HAPPENED DURING THE WINTER: ITEM, HOW IN -- THE SPRING WITCHCRAFT BEGAN IN THE VILLAGE, 25 -- The Fourteenth Chapter. HOW OLD SEDEN DISAPPEARED ALL ON A SUDDEN: ITEM, -- HOW THE GREAT GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS CAME TO POMERANIA, AND TOOK THE -- FORT AT PEENEMUeNDE, 28 -- The Fifteenth Chapter. OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE HIGH AND MIGHTY KING GUSTAVUS -- ADOLPHUS AND WHAT BEFELL THEREAT, 30 -- The Sixteenth Chapter. HOW LITTLE MARY PAASCH WAS SORELY PLAGUED OF THE -- DEVIL, AND THE WHOLE PARISH FELL OFF FROM ME, 33 -- The Seventeenth Chapter. HOW MY POOR CHILD WAS TAKEN UP FOR A WITCH, AND -- CARRIED TO PUDGLA, 35 -- The Eighteenth Chapter. OF THE FIRST TRIAL, AND WHAT CAME THEREOF, 37 -- The Nineteenth Chapter. HOW SATAN, BY THE PERMISSION OF THE MOST RIGHTEOUS -- GOD, SOUGHT ALTOGETHER TO RUIN US, AND HOW WE LOST ALL HOPE, 44 -- The Twentieth Chapter. OF THE MALICE OF THE GOVERNOR AND OF OLD LIZZIE: -- ITEM, OF THE EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES, 47 -- The Twenty?first Chapter. DE CONFRONTATIONE TESTIUM, 49 -- The Twenty?second Chapter. HOW THE SYNDICUS DOM. MICHELSEN ARRIVED AND -- PREPARED HIS DEFENCE OF MY POOR CHILD, 52 -- The Twenty?third Chapter. HOW MY POOR CHILD WAS SENTENCED TO BE PUT TO -- THE QUESTION, 55 -- The Twenty?fourth Chapter. HOW IN MY PRESENCE THE DEVIL FETCHED OLD LIZZIE -- KOLKEN, 61 -- The Twenty?fifth Chapter. HOW SATAN SIFTED ME LIKE WHEAT, WHEREAS MY -- DAUGHTER WITHSTOOD HIM RIGHT BRAVELY, 64 -- The Twenty?sixth Chapter. HOW I RECEIVED THE HOLY SACRAMENT WITH MY -- DAUGHTER AND THE OLD MAIDSERVANT, AND HOW SHE WAS THEN LED FOR -- THE LAST TIME BEFORE THE COURT, WITH THE DRAWN SWORD AND THE -- OUTCRY, TO RECEIVE SENTENCE, 66