Würzburg Witch Trials
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Companion to Journal Entry XIII, written in the Archivist’s own voice, this field study closely examines the Würzburg witch trials of 1625 to 1631, from the frost to the chancellor’s letter and the dead children, while a new wing at Faulkenmire asks what to do with names taken, not given.
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In Entry XIII, the Archivist examines the Würzburg witch trials of 1625 to 1631, when torture and forced denunciations under Prince-Bishop Philipp Adolf von Ehrenberg sent perhaps nine hundred people, including clergy, nobles, and young children, to the fire, and traces their logic back to the Kilkenny case of 1324.