Tuesday, August 15, 2006

"She was arrested in the morning, and by 2pm, she was tortured: she was exorcised, shaved, searched - and raped by the torturer's assistant - and further tortured. To silence her cries, Judge Buirmann himself stuffed a dirty handkerchief into her mouth."
-Witch trial transcripts on the treatment of Frau Peller, Germany, 1631 CE

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