More than sixty women were burned in the last witch hunt 70 years ago in Schongau. Now three children have been murdered and two more are missing. The three murdered children bore the witch's mark and the midwife, Martha, was arrested and imprisoned as the witch. She is to be tortured by the hangman for her confession...before the elder arrives and demands more than one witch. The hangman believes Martha to be innocent and with the doctor's son, Simon, and the hangman's daughter, Magdalena, they search for the true culprits. The year is 1659. The devil the call Braunschwieiger is responsible for the killings and much more... This is an excellent piece of investigative inquisition set in a most interesting time period.
"Genealogy gives us a feeling of immortality. The individual dies; the family lives on."
The family is a safe refuge, a link binding [us] to many people whom [we] love and who love [us]."
"Everyone on this earth is related to everyone else."
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