The Amber Witch

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Author

Meinhold, Wilhelm, 1797-1851

Title

Mary Schweidler, the amber witch The most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known, printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father, Abraham Schweidler, the pastor of Coserow in the island of Usedom / edited by W. Meinhold ; translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon.

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Language

English

LoC Class

PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures

Subject

Witchcraft -- Pomerania (Poland and Germany)

Category

Text

eBook-No.

8743

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8743

Release Date

August 1, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE AMBER WITCH — by
2. 2.Wilhelm Meinhold — The most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known. Printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father Abraham Schweidler, the pastor of Coserow, in the Island of Usedom. — Translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon. — Original publication date: 1846.
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.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
6. 6.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
7. 7.The Ninth Chapter — HOW THE OLD MAID-SERVANT HUMBLED ME BY HER FAITH, AND THE LORD YET BLESSED ME HIS UNWORTHY SERVANT
8. 8.The Tenth Chapter — HOW WE JOURNEYED TO WOLGAST, AND MADE GOOD BARTER THERE
9. 9.The Eleventh Chapter — HOW I FED ALL THE CONGREGATION: ITEM , HOW I JOURNEYED TO THE HORSE FAIR AT GÜTZKOW, AND WHAT BEFELL ME THERE
10. 10.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
11. 11.The Thirteenth Chapter — WHAT MORE HAPPENED DURING THE WINTER: ITEM , HOW IN THE SPRING WITCHCRAFT BEGAN IN THE VILLAGE
12. 12.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 PEENEMÜNDE
13. 13.The Fifteenth Chapter — OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE HIGH AND MIGHTY KING GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS AND WHAT BEFELL THEREAT
14. 14.The Sixteenth Chapter — HOW LITTLE MARY PAASCH WAS SORELY PLAGUED OF THE DEVIL, AND THE WHOLE PARISH FELL OFF FROM ME
15. 15.The Seventeenth Chapter — HOW MY POOR CHILD WAS TAKEN UP FOR A WITCH, AND CARRIED TO PUDGLA
16. 16.The Eighteenth Chapter — OF THE FIRST TRIAL, AND WHAT CAME THEREOF
17. 17.The Nineteenth Chapter — HOW SATAN, BY THE PERMISSION OF THE MOST RIGHTEOUS GOD, SOUGHT ALTOGETHER TO RUIN US, AND HOW WE LOST ALL HOPE
18. 18.The Twentieth Chapter — OF THE MALICE OF THE GOVERNOR AND OF OLD LIZZIE: ITEM , OF THE EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES
19. 19.The Twenty-first Chapter — DE CONFRONTATIONE TESTIUM
20. 20.The Twenty-second Chapter — HOW THE SYNDICUS DOM. MICHELSEN ARRIVED AND PREPARED HIS DEFENCE OF MY POOR CHILD
21. 21.The Twenty-third Chapter — HOW MY POOR CHILD WAS SENTENCED TO BE PUT TO THE QUESTION
22. 22.The Twenty-fourth Chapter — HOW IN MY PRESENCE THE DEVIL FETCHED OLD LIZZIE KOLKEN
23. 23.The Twenty-fifth Chapter — HOW SATAN SIFTED ME LIKE WHEAT, WHEREAS MY DAUGHTER WITHSTOOD HIM RIGHT BRAVELY
24. 24.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
25. 25.The Twenty-seventh Chapter — OF THAT WHICH BEFELL US BY THE WAY: ITEM , OF THE FEARFUL DEATH OF THE SHERIFF AT THE MILL
26. 26.The Twenty-eighth Chapter — HOW MY DAUGHTER WAS AT LENGTH SAVED BY THE HELP OF THE ALL-MERCIFUL, YEA, OF THE ALL-MERCIFUL GOD
27. 27.The Twenty-ninth Chapter — OF OUR NEXT GREAT SORROW, AND FINAL JOY
28. 28.FINIS

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