18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 37

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More diaries of our favorite 18th-century Prussian diary-keeper have been unearthed and have been synopsized!

January 18th: Blessed be thou to me! Under your light, my Prince Heinrich was born!

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Re: Witch Trials of Bamberg

[cahn]

It's really as if everyone lost their collective minds/unleased their inner mass murderer, not stopping even with toddlers.

Oh noooooo. Like Mildred says, it just gets worse and worse!

the city council of Biberach (her hometown, where as the owner of a very popular innn she was a wealthy and respected citizen) decided to consult the legal scholars of the university of Ingolstadt as to whether continuing the torture was permissable or whether she had cleared herself by not confessing, and the Ingolstadt guys decided in her favor.

Oh yay! But also, of course, fascinating as to the differences that you note re: the lack of monetary motivation and the remembrance of what had happened before. People, man.

(But also, the logic about the torture session, aaaaaack.)