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Her case was significant because she confessed a lot more than she was expected to while being gefoltert tortured , which gave people at the time a great insight into witchcraft. Walpurga was a widow. He promised to rid her from Armut poverty if she agreed to sell her soul to the Teufel devil and do whatever he asked of her. Walpurga was very poor, so she agreed. Walpurga was given a Salbe ointment , which she was instructed to kill babies, animals and harvests with. Walpurga also confessed other things of a schrecklich frightful and gottlos unholy nature, such as how she was instructed to kill the babies she delivered, and then use their hair and bones for Zauberei sorcery.
Walpurga was tortured continuously while she was in prison, all the way up to her execution. Before she was executed, her right hand was cut off — this was the hand she had made her Eid oath with as a midwife. She was burned at the stake and her ashes were thrown into a stream. Bis dann until then!
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