Dimensions
165 x 244 x 36mm
On the night of Shrove Tuesday, 1672, Anna Fessler died after eating a neighbour's buttery cake. Could it have been poisoned? Drawing on vivid court documents, eyewitness accounts and an early autopsy report, historian Thomas Robisheaux brings the story to life. Exploring one of Europe's last witch panics, he unravels why neighbours and the court magistrates became convinced that Fessler's neighbour Anna Schmieg was a witch - one of several in the area - ensnared by the devil.
