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Box 5

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Contains 9 Results:

Reinhard, Ursula, defendant, 1649-1654

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 1
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Original documents from the trials of all three accused witches, that took place in Waltershausen in Thuringia, Germany. The first 106 leaves are sewn together in one fascicle and concern only Ursula Reinhard, who was tortured and burned. Followed by 93 loose leaves relating also to her trial, the rest is about subsequent trials of women accused by Ursula, Judith Rommelmann (2 leaves), and Caspar Hess' wife (7 leaves). With a note by G.L. Burr.

Dates: 1649-1654

Rosenthal, Ludwig, May 1900

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 2
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Postcard offering for sale "a very interesting and exceedingly rare" booklet on witchcraft. Pencilled on the card is a note by G.L. Burr indicating that the book was not ordered for Cornell Library due to the price.

Dates: May 1900

Sänger or Singerin, Maria Renata, defendant, 1749

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents Autograph document signed, containing: "Ratione Corporis Delicti," a brief of the case against her (leaves numbered 1-3). Three lists of questions to be asked of her (leaves numbered 4-6). Part of her examination and confession, dated February 5, 1749, and signed in her hand "Soror Maria Renata Sengerin de Mossau" (leaf numbered 7). Legal briefs discussing her alleged crimes, plus accounts of her secular trial and execution (leaves numbered 8-13). Sister Maria Renata von Mossau was a...
Dates: 1749

Schlott, defendant, 1750?

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4
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AM Deposition for witchcraft against one Schlott, who was secretary for the convent of Unterzell, near Würzburg.

Dates: 1750?

[1] Seebauer or Seebawer, K., defendant; [2] Bussbacher, Margaretha, defendant; [3] Schuster, Barbara, defendant; Eismennin, Margaretha, defendant; [4] Schneiderin, Anna, Staudtin, Anna and Magdhalena Stüberich [mother and daugher], Ottilia Dehinn, Claus Winckelmann, all from Hangenweisheim in Franconia, defendants; [5] Kühnen, defendant; [6] Künnen, Reygers, defendant; and [7] Gröling, Margaretha, defendant, 1615-30, 1905

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents This set of manuscripts bound together contains the records of seven distinct trial records, numbered 1-7 in this catalog. The first record contains the testimony of the witnesses, and an account of the procedure of Frau Seebauer's trial and execution for witchcraft in 1629, with a short annotation by G.L. Burr ("bought for the President White's Library in September 1905") as well as two letters in German from bookseller and antiquarian Emil Hirsch from Munich, the first about this...
Dates: 1615-30; 1905

Seublin, Agnes, defendant, 1629

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 6
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Six documents and a postscript scrap belonging to the trial of this Seublin of Warmbronn, near Stuttgart.

Dates: 1629

Spingel, Sunna, defendant, 1621

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 7
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Autograph document signed, related to a witchcraft trial held in Neuerburg, Luxembourg

Dates: 1621

Stein, Susanne, defendant, 6 August-20 November 1627

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 8
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"Advice" on behalf of the authorities of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg and indictment and complete transcript of the trial held in Neuerburg, Luxembourg. With annotations by G.L. Burr, 1887

Dates: 6 August-20 November 1627

Stübler, Magdalena, defendant, 1619-1620

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 9
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Transcript of her witchcraft trial held at Leonberg, in Bavaria.

Dates: 1619-1620