Sidonia The Sorceress V2
BOOK III. Continued. FROM THE RECEPTION OF SIDONIA
INTO THE CONVENT AT MARIENFLIESS UP TILL HER EXECUTION, AUGUST 19TH,
1620.
- CHAPTER IV. How Dorothea Stettin is talked out of
the sub-prioret by Sidonia, and the priest is prohibited from visiting
the convent.
- CHAPTER V. How Sidonia wounds Ambrosia von
Guntersberg with an axe, because she purposed to marry—And prays the
convent porter, Matthias Winterfeld, to death—For these, and other
causes, the reverend chaplain refuses to shrive the sorceress, and
denounces her publicly from the altar.
- CHAPTER VI. Dorothea Stettin falls sick, and how
the doctor manages to bleed her—Item, how Sidonia chases the princely
commissioners into the oak-forest.
- CHAPTER VII. How the assembled Pomeranian princes
hold a council over Sidonia
- CHAPTER VIII. Of Sidonia's defence—Item, how she
has a quarrel with Joachim Wedel, and bewitches him to death.
- CHAPTER IX. How a strange woman (who must assuredly
have been Sidonia) incites the lieges of his Grace to great uproar and
tumult in Stettin, by reason of the new tax upon beer.
- CHAPTER X. Of the fearful events that take place at
Marienfliess—Item, bow Dorothea Stettin becomes possessed by the
devil.
- CHAPTER XI. Of the arrival of Diliana and the death
of the convent priest—Item, how the unfortunate corpse is torn by a
wolf.
- CHAPTER XII. How Jobst Bork has himself carried to
Marienfliess in his bed, to reclaim his fair young daughter
Diliana—Item, how George Putkammer threatens Sidonia with a drawn
sword.
- CHAPTER XIII. How my gracious Lord Bishop
Franciscus and the reverend Dr. Joel go to the Jews' school at Old
Stettin, in order to steal the Schem Hamphorasch, and how the
enterprise finishes with a sound cudgelling.
- CHAPTER XIV. How the Duke Francis seeks a virgin
at Marienfliess to cite the angel Och for him—Of Sidonia's evil plot
thereupon, and the terrible uproar caused thereby in the convent.
- CHAPTER XV. Of the death of the abbess, Magdalena
von Petersdorfin—Item, how Duke Francis makes Jobst Bork and his
daughter, Diliana, come to Camyn, and what happens there.
- CHAPTER XVI. Jobst Bork takes away his daughter by
force from the Duke and Dr. Joel; also is strengthened in his unbelief
by Dr. Cramer—Item, how my gracious Prince arrives at Marienfliess,
and there vehemently menaces Sidonia.
- CHAPTER XVII. Of the fearful death of his
Highness, Duke Philip II. of Pomerania, and of his melancholy but
sumptuous burial.
- CHAPTER XVIII. How Joist Bork and his little
daughter are forced at last into the “Opus Magicum”—Item, how his
Highness, Duke Francis, appoints Christian Ludecke, his
attorney-general, to be witch-commissioner of Pomerania.
- CHAPTER XIX. How Christian Ludecke begins the
witch-burnings in Marienfliess, and lets the poor dairy-mother die
horribly on the rack.
- CHAPTER XX. What Sidonia said to these
doings—Item, what our Lord God said; and, lastly, of the magical
experiment performed upon George Patkammer and Diliana, in Old Stettin.
- CHAPTER XXI. Of the awful and majestic appearance
of the sun-angel, Och.
- CHAPTER XXII. How old Wolde is seized, confronted
with Sidonia, and finally burned before her window.
- CHAPTER XXIII. How Diliana Bork and George
Putkammer are at length betrothed—Item, how Sidonia is degraded from
her conventual dignities and carried to the witches' tower of Saatzig
in chains.
- CHAPTER XXIV. Of the execution of Sidonia and the
wedding of Diliana.
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