Nobody Liked Her
Lee Palmer Wandel: Witchcraft Trials, 3 December 2009
The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Village
by Thomas Robisheaux.
Norton, 427 pp., £18.99, March 2009,978 0 393 06551 0 Show More
by Thomas Robisheaux.
Norton, 427 pp., £18.99, March 2009,
“... she cried out: ‘O God! I must die!’ By midnight, she was dead. Anna Fessler’s death opens Thomas Robisheaux’s microhistory of a single trial for witchcraft in a small Franconian principality. The court barber-surgeon and bath master, called to examine the corpse, reported it distended and pale, but they could not determine the cause of ... ”
