Holy Roman Empire
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In Entry IX, the Archivist separates the Bamberg witch trials of the 1620s from Trier’s earlier persecution, examining Prince-Bishop Fuchs von Dornheim, the Witch Burner, his purpose-built Drudenhaus with its Vergilian inscription, and the deaths of Georg Haan, Johannes Junius, and Dorothea Flock, while warning against the blended popular retellings.
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Between 1626 and 1631, Prince-Bishop Fuchs von Dornheim of Bamberg executed hundreds of accused witches, confining them in the purpose-built Drudenhaus. This companion to Journal Entry IX traces the frost that sparked the trials, the machinery of torture and naming, the deaths of Haan, Junius, and Flock, and imperial intervention.
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Companion to Journal Entry VIII, this field study examines the Trier witch trials of 1581 to 1593: the hungry years, the village committees, the burnings at St. Maximin, the execution of judge Dietrich Flade in 1589, Peter Binsfeld’s doctrine of confession, and the forced silencing of the dissenter Cornelius Loos.
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In Entry VIII, the Archivist examines the Trier witch trials of 1581–1593 and the prominent people they consumed, above all the judge and rector Dietrich Flade, alongside the persecutor Peter Binsfeld and the dissenter Cornelius Loos, while setting the register beside Faulkenmire’s unresolved 1892 New England clippings without claiming connection.