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AGNES BERNAUERIN. 85 '
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Agnes It C , H Th Ance At D A , Great So...
for parting t another was a sad last and embrace gloomy . He one . rode Twice away did in she heaviness recall him of ye
heart from once happy Straubing , and looked his last upon his " Duchess The duke Angela once fair . " ly away , his enemies proceeded to immediate thrown into Duke
action . The duchess was arrested and prison . as over Erns a wi by t was tch the and Pap to enchantress al consider Legate _mifr Liebestrdnken , h arrai er . as They gned a wi ac tch her cused , as a her a Hexe tribunal of befooled having und , Zauberin presided bethort Duke
Albrecht den Herzog with Albrech love- t potions ; and she _, was having further charged with being a Giftmisckerina " poisoner , " who had poisoned a
son iven of ou Duk t that e Withelm proceedings _^ , the were cousin taken of her in the husband duke . ' s absence It was
g out of kindness to himand in order to free him . from the enchantments of a vil , e witch . The clergy industriously
na circula tion t against ed the charge the gentl of wi e t du chcra chess ft . , and Out aroused of her own popular goodness indig- , tt in which t
ou enmesh t of her , her beau . That ty and tions beauty kindness of the , and evil , they tha wove t kindness allurements he ne , were , they b
declaredbut decepone ; put on y a charge damned of , wit tchcraft ch . In was an indeed age of credulity a terrible and weapon supers in tition the hands that
, of Alone priestcraft unhel . pedand unfriendedthe unhappy duchess bore
herself Onlkonce w , ith did sin she gular s _, how firmness a sign of and anger , dignity , and be tha fore t was her , a accusers t finding .
herself y described in the accusation as a Dime , a She ligh knew t woman that .
she She was well not knew there that to her be tried fate was but decided to be sacrificed upon , . She asserted
womanl repudia gently ted but unalterable the firml charg y , her e love of dignity for witchcraft , her as dear a ; wife lord she ; and asserted and duchess she professed her ; pure she ,
her read y ines , sif no better might be , to die . She prayed God to forg insul ive ting her murderer , entangl s ; and ques then tion , s pressed fusing t o p answer on her , more she meekl of the y
forthwith pronounced resigned be herself her publicl doom to y the executed . The will , sentence forthwith of as her a witch jud was carried , ges b , y . tha dro into They t wn she execution ing speedil should in the y
Danube ; and the sentence was . for crowd A us great . , and The such crowd feelings a gothic collected of city the , to populace as see Leys Angela alone were die much l . w It divided ort was hily such dep about ict a
her . The divinehuman instinct pitied a creature so young , so popul f wickedness air , so ar fe good ar and of and the , a church innocent dread of created ; the but results a the vague ban of belief sympath of sorcery in supernatural y with and one the ,
Agnes Bernauerin. 85 '
AGNES BERNAUERIN . 85 '
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/13/
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