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.
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 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
Gustavus Adolphus came to Pomerania, and took the fort at
Peenemünde.
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.
CHAPTER IV
.
_How Dorothea Stettin is talked out of the sub-prioret by Sidonia, and
the priest is prohibited from visiting the convent._
If Sidonia could not be the pastor's wife, she was determined at least to
be sub-prioress, and commenced her preparations for this object by
knitting a little pair of red hose for her cat. Then she sent for Dorothea
Stettin, saying that she was weak and ill, and no one took pity on her.
When the good Dorothea came as she was asked, there lay my serpent
on the bed in her nun's robes, groaning and moaning as if her last hour
had come; and scarcely had the sub-prioress taken a seat near her, when
my cat crept forth from under the bed, in his little red hose, mewing
and rubbing himself up against the robe of the sub-prioress, as if
praying her to remove this unwonted constraint from him, of the little
red hose.
After Dorothea had inquired about her sickness, she looked at the cat,
and asked wonderingly, what was the meaning of such a strange dress?
Illa.--"Ah, dear friend, it was dreadful to my feelings to see the little
animal going about naked, therefore I knit
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