Witch trial: "To judge the hard thing to burn her cadaver"

Because Anna Maria Schwegelin reported on strange encounters with a man with a cold limb and semen in the poor house in Kempten, she was accused. The trial ended in 1775 with the last death sentence against a witch in Germany.

In Styria, including Lenart and its surroundings, centuries ago witch trials took place, in which mostly women were accused of witchcraft, and then they were forced to confess to their collaboration with the devil and witchcraft through cruel torture. In the book ‘Witches – the devil’s helpers or saints?’ Sašo Radovanovič and Senka Dreu present cruel stories and shed light on the background of these trials, including personal stories of women wh…