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Contains 25 Results:

Sentença de Maria Antonia de Liveyra [contemporary copy] Trial Record (fragments), 1710

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Report of the trial of an alleged witch who was engaged in treating kinds of human and animal diseases, using grimaces and magical signs, and pretending to "swallow the illness." She confessed to all the charges against her and was burnt.

Dates: 1710
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4620, Witchcraft collection, unbound manuscripts / Manuscripts and Documents / L-P

Loder, Hans, defendant, 1584-1585

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Nine fragments of a trial record held in Arnstein, all addressed to the Prince-Bishop of Würtzburg.

Dates: 1584-1585
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4620, Witchcraft collection, unbound manuscripts / Manuscripts and Documents / L-P

Margareth of Körperich-Neuerburg (Luxembourg), defendant, 1600

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Her confession that she was led to become a witch by her grandmother at age 4.

Dates: 1600
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4620, Witchcraft collection, unbound manuscripts / Manuscripts and Documents / L-P

"[Prozess] gegen die Witwe Lamkers, Maria, zu Neuerburg [Luxemburg], Lasters Zauberey halber", 1630

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Deposition against Maria Lamkers made by the city attorney "ex officio."

Dates: 1630
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4620, Witchcraft collection, unbound manuscripts / Manuscripts and Documents / L-P

Laubardemont, Jean de, 1590-1653, to Cardinal de Richelieu, 1635

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Account by Laubardemont [a Capuchin monk and Richelieu's agent] of the successful exorcism of the Ursuline Prioress of Loudun, one year after the execution of Urbain Grandier. A fifth demon has been expelled from the body of the nun, leaving the name "Joseph" on her left hand.

Dates: 1635
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4620, Witchcraft collection, unbound manuscripts / Manuscripts and Documents / L-P

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