Wilhelm Meinhold: 7 books

The Amber Witch is a German novel published by Wilhelm Meinhold (1797–1851) in 1838. Its German title is Maria Schweidler, die Bernsteinhexe. The novel was originally published as a literary hoax which purported to be an actual 17th-century chronicle. Meinhold later admitted to the hoax but had some...

The Amber Witch is a German novel published by Wilhelm Meinhold. The novel was originally published as a literary hoax which purported to be an actual 17th-century chronicle. The story is set during the Thirty Years' War. The purported author, Reverend Abraham Schweidler, almost loses his only child,...

Das Brandschatzen der kaiserlichen Truppen während des Dreißigjährigen Kriegs bringt Leid und Elend über die Menschen auf der Insel Usedom. Der Koserower Pfarrer Abraham Schweidler und seine Tochter Maria versuchen die Not zu lindern, indem sie den von Maria im Streckelsberg gefundenen Bernstein...

Eine Novelle In dieser früheren Fassung seines berühmten Romanes »Die Bernsteinhexe« gelingt es Meinhold, ein spannendes Zeitgemälde des 17. Jahrhunderts zu zeichnen, indem er die Geschichte einer Hexenverfolgung auf Usedom erzählt.

In laying before the public this deeply affecting and romantic trial, which I have not without reason called on the title-page the most interesting of all trials for witchcraft ever known, I will first give some account of the history of the manuscript. At Coserow, in the Island of Usedom, my former...

Amongst all the trials for witchcraft with which we are acquainted, few have attained so great a celebrity as that of the Lady Canoness of Pomerania, Sidonia von Bork. She was accused of having by her sorceries caused sterility in many families, particularly in that of the ancient reigning house of Pomerania,...

In laying before the public this deeply affecting and romantic trial, which I have not without reason called on the title-page the most interesting of all trials for witchcraft ever known, I will first give some account of the history of the manuscript. At Coserow, in the Island of Usedom, my former...