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Victims of German Witch Hunt (Eichstatt (Reached into high social scale,…
Victims of German Witch Hunt
Fulda
Merga Bien
Pregnant when arrested in march 1603
Forced to confess to murder of second husband and kids
Confessed to taking part in sabbat
Forced to confess current child (pregnancy) was of the devil
Burned alive in 1603
Cologne
Katherina Henot
Burnt at stake for sorcery
Postmaster- likely 1st one
Well known and influential citizen
Her and brother accused of causing deaths- were imprisoned and refused to admit anything despite being tortured
Judged guilty, sentenced to burn alive (1627)
Trial considered to be juridically incorrect- was a victim of conspiracy by authorities
Harger Henot
Brother of Katherina
Tried to get her name cleared after execution but was accused by Christina Plum
Arrested in 1631 with others but trial was interrupted
Young maiden women
Mostly male who were from high social class (pastors, vicars, professors)
The Chancellor and his wife
Nordlingen
Rebecca Lemp
Married with 6 children
Tortured five times and forced to confess to witchcraft in letter to husband
Burned at stake on 9th September 1590
Bamberg
George Haan and family
Served bishops of Bamberg loyally for many years
Relative leniency as a judge made him suspect as a witch sympathiser
Vice Chancellor of Bamberg
Wife and daughter arrested then he and son fled to Imperial Court to stop the execution- when they get back already executed
George and son confessed and executed
Johann Junius
Lord mayor of Bamberg
One of the men denounced by Haan
Tortured extensively and agreed to confess to whatever the witch commissioners wanted- named fellow witches including relatives and friends
He and family except one daughter were executed in 1628
Dorothea Flock
Wife of councillor
Arrested and imprisoned for adultery in Dec 1629
Escaped, caught, accused of witchcraft
Severely tortured even after confession
Sentenced to death (1630)
Wurzburg
All ages, class, gender and religion
Children of young ages- 25% were children between 1627 and 1629
Wife of the mayor
Thirty-two appear to have been vagrants,
Trier
Victims were male and female of all ages and classes- tortured
Included leading men of the city (e.g. Cornelius Loos)
Eichstatt
Reached into high social scale
Often attacked women associated with male elite
Three former burgomasters
Eight burgo-masters's wives
Several innkeepers and viewers
Wife of the town clerk
Daughter of the bishop’s provincial administrator
Ellwangen
Barbara Riihn
70 years old
Long-standing reputation as a witch
The wife of a judge was executed in the autumn of 1611 followed by the judge himself.
In 1615, three priests and an organist
Marchtal
Ursula Gotz
Elderly woman
Accused of maleficia
Pressured into giving a confession
Beheaded then body burnt
Two other local witches burned along side her