THE AMBER WITCH
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION.
  • CHAPTER VII. How the Imperialists robbed me of all that was left, and likewise broke into the church and stole the Vasa Sacra; also what more befell us.
  • CHAPTER VIII. How our need waxed sorer and sorer, and how I sent old Ilse with another letter to Pudgla, and how heavy a misfortune this brought upon me.
  • CHAPTER IX. How the old maid-servant humbled me by her faith, and the Lord yet blessed me His unworthy servant.
  • CHAPTER X. How we journeyed to Wolgast, and made good barter there.
  • CHAPTER XI. How I fed all the congregation—Item, how I journeyed to the horse-fair at Guetzkow, and what befell me there.
  • CHAPTER XII. What further joy and sorrow befell us; item, how Wittich Appelmann rode to Damerow to the wolf-hunt, and what he proposed to my daughter.
  • CHAPTER XIII. What more happened during the winter—Item, how in the spring witchcraft began in the village.
  • CHAPTER XIV. How old Seden disappeared all on a sudden—Item, how the great Gustavus Adolphus came to Pomeranla, and took the fort at Peenemuende.
  • CHAPTER XV. Of the arrival of the high and mighty King Gustavus Adolphus, and what befell thereat.
  • CHAPTER XVI. How little Mary Paasch was sorely plagued of the devil, and the whole parish fell off from me.
  • CHAPTER XVII. How my poor child was taken up for a witch, and carried to Pudgla.
  • CHAPTER XVIII. Of the first trial, and what came thereof.
  • CHAPTER XIX. How Satan, by the permission of the most righteous God, sought altogether to ruin us, and how we lost all hope.
  • CHAPTER XX. Of the malice of the Governor and of old Lizzie—item, of the examination of witnesses.
  • CHAPTER XXI. De confrontatione testium.
  • CHAPTER XXII. How the Syndicus Dom. Michelson arrived, and prepared his defence of my poor child.
  • CHAPTER XXIII. How my poor child was sentenced to be put to the question.
  • CHAPTER XXIV. How in my presence the devil fetched old Lizzie Kolken.
  • CHAPTER XXV. How Satan sifted me like wheat, whereas my daughter withstood him right bravely.
  • CHAPTER XXVI. How I received the Holy Sacrament with my daughter and the old maid-servant, and how she was then led for the last time before the court, with the drawn sword and the outcry, to receive sentence.
  • CHAPTER XXVII. Of that which befell us by the way—Item, of the fearful death of the sheriff at the mill.
  • CHAPTER XXVIII. How my daughter was at length saved by the help of the all-merciful, yea, of the all-merciful God.
  • CHAPTER XXIX. Of our next great sorrow, and final joy.
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