Mary Schweidler, the amber witch

Name: Mary Schweidler, the amber witch
Author: Wilhelm Meinhold

by Wilhelm Meinhold

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Original publication date: 1846.

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Mary Schweidler, the amber witch The most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known, printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father, Abraham Schweidler, the pastor of Coserow in the island of Usedom / edited by W. Meinhold ; translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon.

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Distributed Proofreaders

Release date

2005-08-01

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Witchcraft -- Pomerania (Poland and Germany)

About the author

Wilhelm Meinhold

1797–1851

Best remembered for the eerie historical novel The Amber Witch, this German pastor and writer delighted readers with a story so convincing it was first taken for a genuine seventeenth-century chronicle. His work blends folklore, suspense, and a sly sense of literary mischief.

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