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distress in Pomeranian land--Item, how Sidonia and Johann Appelmann determine to join the robbers in the vicinity of Stargard.
CHAPTER VIII
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How Johann and Sidonia meet an adventure at Alten Damm--Item, of their reception by the robber-band.
CHAPTER IX
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How his Highness, Duke Barnim the elder, went a-hawking at Marienfliess--Item, of the shameful robbery at Zachan, and how burgomaster Appelmann remonstrates with his abandoned son.
CHAPTER X
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How the robbers attack Prince Ernest and his bride in the Uckermann forest, and Marcus Bork and Dinnies Kleist come to their rescue.
CHAPTER XI
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Of the ambassadors in the tavern of Mutzelburg--Item, how the miller, Konnemann, is discovered, and made by Dinnies Kleist to act as guide to the robber cave, where they find all the women-folk lying apparently dead, through some devil's magic of the gipsy mother.
CHAPTER XII
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How the peasants in Marienfliess want to burn a witch, but are hindered by Johann Appelmann and Sidonia, who discover an old acquaintance in the witch, the girl Wolde Albrechts.
CHAPTER XIII
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Of the adventure with the boundary lads, and how one of them promises to admit Johann Appelmann into the castle of Daber that same night--Item, of what befell amongst the guests at the castle.
CHAPTER XIV
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How the knave Appelmann seizes his Serene Eminence Duke Johann by the throat, and how his Grace and the whole castle are saved by Marcus Bork and his young bride Clara; also, how Sidonia at last is taken prisoner.
CHAPTER XV
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How Sidonia demeans herself at the castle of Saatzig, and how Clara forgets the injunctions of her beloved husband, when he leaves her to attend the Diet at Wollin, on the subject of the courts--Item, how the Serene Prince Duke Johann Frederick beheads his court fool with a sausage.
CHAPTER XVI
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How Sidonia makes poor Clara appear quite dead, and of the great mourning at Saatzig over her burial, while Sidonia dances on her coffin and sings the 109th psalm--Item, of the sermon, and the anathema pronounced upon a wicked sinner from the altar of the church.
CHAPTER XVII
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How Sidonia is chased by the wolves to Rehewinkel, and finds Johann Appelmann again in the inn, with whom she goes away a second time by night.
CHAPTER XVIII
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How a new leaf is turned over at Bruchhausen in a very fearful manner--Old Appelmann takes his worthless son prisoner, and admonishes him to repentance--Of Johann's wonderful conversion, and execution next morning in the churchyard, Sidonia being present thereby.
CHAPTER XIX
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Of Sidonia's disappearance for thirty years--Item, how the young Princess Elizabeth Magdelene was possessed by a devil, and of the sudden death of her father, Ernest Ludovicus of Pomerania.
CHAPTER XX
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How Sidonia demeans herself at the Convent of Marienfliess--Item, how their Princely and Electoral Graces of Pomerania, Brandenburg, and Mecklenburg, went on sleighs to Wolgast, and of the divers pastimes of the journey.
CHAPTER XXI
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How Sidonia meets their Graces upon the ice--Item, how Dinnies Kleist beheads himself, and my gracious lord of Wolgast perishes miserably.
CHAPTER XXII
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How Barnim the Tenth succeeds to the government, and how Sidonia meets him as she is gathering bilberries--Item, of the unnatural witch-storm at his Grace's funeral, and how Duke Casimir refuses, in consequence, to succeed him.
CHAPTER XXIII
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Duke Bogislaff XIII. accepts the government of the duchy, and gives Sidonia at last the long-desired pr?benda--Item, of her arrival at the convent of Marienfliess.
BOOK III.
_FROM THE RECEPTION OF SIDONIA INTO THE CONVENT AT MARIENFLIESS UP TILL HER EXECUTION, AUGUST 19TH, 1620._
CHAPTER I
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How the sub-prioress, Dorothea Stettin, visits Sidonia and extols her virtue--Item, of Sidonia's quarrel with the dairy-woman, and how she beats the sheriff himself, Eggert Sparling, with a broom-stick.
CHAPTER II
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How Sidonia visits the abbess, Magdalena von Petersdorf, and explains her wishes, but is diverted to other objects by a sight of David Ludeck, the chaplain to the convent.
CHAPTER III
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Sidonia tries another way to catch the priest, but fails through a mistake--Item, of her horrible spell, whereby she bewitched the whole princely race of Pomerania, so that, to the grievous sorrow of their fatherland, they remain barren even unto this day.

BOOK I.
FROM THE RECEPTION OF SIDONIA AT THE DUCAL COURT OF WOLGAST UNTIL HER BANISHMENT THEREFROM.
SIDONIA THE SORCERESS

CHAPTER I
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_Of the education of Sidonia._
The illustrious and high-born prince and lord, Bogislaff, fourteenth Duke of Pomerania, Prince of Cassuben, Wenden, and Rugen, Count of Güzkow, Lord of the lands of Lauenburg and Butow, and my gracious feudal seigneur, having commanded me, Dr. Theodore Pl?nnies, formerly bailiff at the ducal court, to make search throughout all the land for information respecting the world-famed sorceress, Sidonia von Bork, and write down the same in a book, I set out for Stargard, accompanied by a servant, early one Friday after the _Visitationis Mari?_, 1629; for, in my opinion, in order to form a just judgment respecting the character of any one, it is necessary to make one's self acquainted with the circumstances of their early life; the future man lies enshrined in the