'Cautio Criminalis' Or A Book On Witch Trials (Studies in Early Modern German History)

The Judges Become the Judged

36. When, under stress of pain, the witch has confessed, her plight is indescribable. Not only cannot she escape herself, but she is also compelled to accuse others whom she does not know, whose names are frequently put into her mouth by the investigators or suggested by the executioner, or of whom she has heard as…

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• paranoia
• witch hunts