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Robisheaux, Thomas Willard.
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Witchcraft -- Germany -- Langenburg -- History.
Murder -- Germany -- Langenburg -- History.
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Robisheaux, Thomas Willard.
Witchcraft -- Germany -- Langenburg -- History.
Murder -- Germany -- Langenburg -- History.
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The last witch of Langenburg : murder in a German village / Thomas Robisheaux.
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Robisheaux, Thomas Willard.
W.W. Norton, c2009.
Call #:
133
.430943
R666L
Subjects
Witchcraft -- Germany -- Langenburg -- History.
Murder -- Germany -- Langenburg -- History.
ISBN:
9780393065510 (hardcover)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
427 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-408) and index.
Contents:
Death on Shrove Tuesday -- The autopsy -- A confusing and suspicious affair -- Warding off evil -- A secret crime? -- The outsider -- Sorcery at the mill -- Wider conspiracies -- Satan in the heart? -- A daughter's betrayal -- A mother's revenge? -- Corpus delicti -- A question of poison -- Impasse -- Politics -- A vengeful heart -- Poor sinner -- Ruin -- Stories.
Summary:
Exploring one of Europe's last witch panics, historian Thomas Robisheaux brings to life the story of an entire world caught between superstition and modernity in a high-stakes drama that led to charges of sorcery and witchcraft against an entire family.
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