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Lea, iii. 549.

Haas, Die Hexenprocesse, Tübingen, 1865.

Soldan and Heppe, ii. 46, and elsewhere.

Beiträge zur Geschichte des Hexenwesens in Franken, Bamberg, 1883.

48 ff.

Official report, given by Leitschuh in appendix.

Maria Hollin at Nördlingen (1593) withstood fifty-six repetitions of torture, and was finally ‘dismissed’ on the terms mentioned (Janssen, op. cit., viii. 719).

The Nördlingen authorities acquired an evil eminence in this frightfulness, which they termed ‘eine heilsame Tortur’ (Soldan, ii. 470).

Lea, iii. 545, and references there given.

De praestigiis, &c., ii. 5.

The privilege for publication is dated November 4, 1562; three editions appeared before the end of 1564, and a sixth in 1583.

Op. cit., ii. 1.

Op. cit., ii. 4.

iii. 6.

iii. 18.

iii. 21.

iii. 23.

iv. 1.

iv. 2.

iv. 3.

iv. 23.

iv. 10.

Op. cit., v. 34.

v. 35.

vi. 4.

vi. 9.

‘Mossel-scolp nostratibus dicitur.’

Op. cit., vi. 15.

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