A broadsheet printed in Augsburg detailing the Pappenheim trial and execution that took place in Munich in 1600. The image shows a full-page print telling the story from the perspective of the authorities. Four woodcut illustrations show (clockwise from top left) a man dressed in late sixteenth century garb meeting the devil on a rural road, the half-naked delinquents of the trial subjected to public torture in front of viewers in a city environment, the same people on a cart being conveyed to the place of execution in the company of soldiers and clerics, and their burning at the stake. The text describes their supposed crimes including theft and robbery, but mainly doing damage to others by magical means. Source: https://stadtgeschichte-muenchen.de/bilder/d_bilder.php?id=412
Today's post comes with a content warning: How class and culinary practice shade accounts of imaginary #cannibal feasts in a 1600 #witchcraft trial.
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