Sidonia The Sorceress, vol 2

Sidonia The Sorceress, vol 2

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SIDONIA THE SORCERESS

THE SUPPOSED DESTROYER OF THE WHOLE REIGNING
DUCAL HOUSE OF POMERANIA.
TRANSLATED BY LADY WILDE
MARY SCHWEIDLER
THE AMBER WITCH BY WILLIAM MEINHOLD DOCTOR OF
THEOLOGY
IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II.
1894

CONTENTS
SIDONIA 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 Wedel,
and bewitches him to death.

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
Dorothea Stettin becomes possessed by the devil.

CHAPTER XI
.
Of the arrival of Diliana and the death of the convent priest-- Item, how
the unfortunate corpse is torn by a wolf.

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

Duke Francis makes Jobst Bork and his daughter, Diliana, come to
Camyn, and what happens there.

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 Pomerania, and
of his melancholy but sumptuous burial.

CHAPTER XVIII
.
How Jobst Bork and his little daughter are forced at last into the "Opus
Magicum"--Item, how his Highness, Duke Francis, appoints Christian
Ludecke, his attorney-general, to be witch-commissioner of Pomerania.

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,