  MARY SCHWEIDLER THE AMBER WITCH THE MOST INTERESTING TRIAL FOR Title: Sidonia the Sorceress V2 Author: Milliam Meinhold Language: English Produced by Steve Schulze, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the CWRU Preservation Department Digital Library SIDONIA THE SORCERESSTHE SUPPOSED DESTROYER OF THE WHOLE REIGNING DUCAL HOUSE OF POMERANIA.TRANSLATED BY LADY WILDEMARY SCHWEIDLERTHE AMBER WITCH BY WILLIAM MEINHOLD DOCTOR OF THEOLOGYIN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II.1894 CONTENTSSIDONIA THE SORCERESS.BOOK III.Continued. FROM THE RECEPTION OF SIDONIA INTO THE CONVENT AT MARIENFLIESS UP TILL HER EXECUTION, AUGUST 19TH, 1620.CHAPTER IV.How Dorothea Stettin is talked out of the sub-prioret by Sidonia, and the priest is prohibited from visiting the convent. CHAPTER V.How Sidonia wounds Ambrosia von Guntersberg with an axe, because she purposed to marry—And prays the convent porter, Matthias Winterfeld, to death—For these, and other causes, the reverend chaplain refuses to shrive the sorceress, and denounces her publicly from the altar. CHAPTER VI.Dorothea Stettin falls sick, and how the doctor manages to bleed her—Item, how Sidonia chases the princely commissioners into the oak-forest. CHAPTER VII.How the assembled Pomeranian princes hold a council over Sidonia, and at length cite her to appear at the ducal court. CHAPTER VIII.Of Sidonia's defence—Item, how she has a quarrel with Joachim CHAPTER IX.How a strange woman (who must assuredly have been Sidonia) incites the lieges of his Grace to great uproar and tumult in Stettin, by reason of the new tax upon beer. CHAPTER X.Of the fearful events that take place at Marienfliess—Item, how CHAPTER XI.Of the arrival of Diliana and the death of the convent priest— CHAPTER XII.How Jobst Bork has himself carried to Marienfliess in his bed to reclaim his fair young daughter Diliana—Item, how George Putkammer threatens Sidonia with a drawn sword. CHAPTER XIII.How my gracious Lord Bishop Franciscus and the reverend Dr. Joel go to the Jews' school at Old Stettin, in order to steal the Schem Hamphorasch, and how the enterprise finishes with a sound. cudgelling. CHAPTER XIV.How the Duke Francis seeks a virgin at Marienfliess to cite the angel Och for him—Of Sidonia's evil plot thereupon, and the terrible uproar caused thereby in the convent. CHAPTER XV.Of the death of the abbess, Magdalena von Petersdorfin—Item, how CHAPTER XVI.Jobst Bork takes away his daughter by force from the Duke and Dr. Joel; also is strengthened in his unbelief by Dr. Cramer—Item, how my gracious Prince arrives at Marienfliess, and there vehemently menaces Sidonia. CHAPTER XVII.Of the fearful death of his Highness, Duke Philip II. of CHAPTER XVIII.How Jobst Bork and his little daughter are forced at last into the CHAPTER XIX.How Christian Ludecke begins the witch-burnings in Marienfliess, and lets the poor dairy-mother die horribly on the rack. CHAPTER XX.What Sidonia said to these doings—Item, what our Lord God said; and lastly, of the magical experiment performed upon George Putkammer and Diliana, in Old Stettin. CHAPTER XXI.Of the awful and majestic appearance of the sun-angel, Och. CHAPTER XXII.How old Wolde is seized, confronted with Sidonia, and finally burned before her window. CHAPTER XXIII.How Diliana Bork and George Putkammer are at length betrothed— Item, how Sidonia is degraded from her conventual dignities and carried to the witches' tower of Saatzig in chains. CHAPTER XXIV.Of the execution of Sidonia and the wedding of Diliana. CONCLUSION.Mournful destiny of the last princely Pomeranian remains—My visit to the ducal Pomeranian vault in Wolgast, on the 6th May 1840. THE AMBER WITCH.PREFACEINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER VII.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. CHAPTER VIII.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. CHAPTER IX.How the old maid-servant humbled me by her faith, and the Lord yet blessed me, His unworthy servant. CHAPTER X.How we journeyed to Wolgast, and made good barter there. CHAPTER XI.How I fed all the congregation—Item, how I journeyed to the horse-fair at GÜtzkow, and what befell me there. CHAPTER XII.What further joy and sorrow befell us-Item, how Wittich Appelmann rode to Damerow to the wolf-hunt, and what he proposed to my daughter. CHAPTER XIII.What more happened during the winter—Item, how in the spring witchcraft began in the village. CHAPTER XIV.How old Seden disappeared all on a sudden—Item, how the great CHAPTER XV.Of the arrival of the high and mighty King Gustavus Adolphus, and what befell thereat. CHAPTER XVI.How little Mary Paasch was sorely plagued of the devil, and the whole parish fell off from me. CHAPTER XVII.How my poor child was taken up for a witch, and carried to Pudgla. CHAPTER XVIII.Of the first trial, and what came thereof. CHAPTER XIX.How Satan, by the permission of the most righteous God, sought altogether to ruin us, and how we lost all hope. CHAPTER XX.Of the malice of the Governor and of old Lizzie—Item, of the examination of witnesses. CHAPTER XXI.De confrontations testium. CHAPTER XXII.How the Syndicus Dom. Michelson arrived, and prepared his defence of my poor child. CHAPTER XXIII.How my poor child was sentenced to be put to the question. CHAPTER XXIV.How in my presence the devil fetched old Lizzie Kolken. CHAPTER XXV.How Satan sifted me like wheat, whereas my daughter withstood him right bravely. CHAPTER XXVI.How I received the Holy Sacrament with my daughter and the old maid-servant, and how she was then led for the last time before the court, with the drawn sword and the outcry, to receive sentence. CHAPTER XXVII.Of that which befell us by the way—Item, of the fearful death of the sheriff at the mill. CHAPTER XXVIII.How my daughter was at length saved by the help of the all-merciful, yea, of the all-merciful God. CHAPTER XXIX.Of our next great sorrow, and final joy. BOOK III. Continued.FROM THE RECEPTION OF SIDONIA INTO THE CONVENT AT MARIENFLIESS UP TILL HER EXECUTION, AUGUST 19TH, 1620.VOL. II. |
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