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SIDONIA THE SORCERESS
THE SUPPOSED DESTROYER OF THE WHOLE REIGNING DUCAL HOUSE OFPOMERANIA.
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 MARIENFLIESSUP 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, becauseshe purposed to marry—And prays the convent porter, MatthiasWinterfeld, to death—For these, and other causes, the reverendchaplain refuses to shrive the sorceress, and denounces herpublicly from the altar.
CHAPTER VI.
Dorothea Stettin falls sick, and how the doctor manages to bleedher—Item, how Sidonia chases the princely commissioners into theoak-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) incitesthe lieges of his Grace to great uproar and tumult in Stettin, byreason 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 toreclaim his fair young daughter Diliana—Item, how GeorgePutkammer threatens Sidonia with a drawn sword.
CHAPTER XIII.
How my gracious Lord Bishop Franciscus and the reverend Dr. Joelgo to the Jews' school at Old Stettin, in order to steal the SchemHamphorasch, and how the enterprise finishes with a sound.cudgelling.
CHAPTER XIV.
How the Duke Francis seeks a virgin at Marienfliess to cite theangel Och for him—Of Sidonia's evil plot thereupon, and theterrible 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 therevehemently menaces Sidonia.