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Walpurga Hausmannin: witchcraft, infanticide and sex with the devil

Many women throughout history have been accused of witchcraft and subjected to torture until they have confessed what their accusers wanted.In many cases they were victims of envy, were affected by some kind of mental illness or simply they resisted submitting to the absurd laws and customs of their time.In Mysterious we have seen some cases like that of the witch Agnes Waterhouse and her cat Satanas or that of Alice Kyteler, the first Irish witch, accused of having relations with an incubus and in This time we want to approach a new and terrible episode: Walpurga Hausmannin accused of witchcraft, infanticide and sex with the devil.

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Walpurga Hausmannin

Walpurga Hausmannin was an elderly widow who worked as a midwife in the city of Dillingen in Germany.She is believed to have been born around 1510 and had been working as a midwife for 19 years when she was accused of witchcraft, murder of ni us and vampirism and burned at the stake in 1587.

Walpurga Hausmannin: witchcraft, infanticide and sex with the devil

Midwife working

During the beginning of the Modern Age, in Central Europe , there was a phenomenon known as Witch Hunt that I carry to the pyre many people, especially women, accused of witchcraft and who were made to confess through torture.The case of Walpurga Hausmannin is one of them.What makes it different is that due to the heinous Tortures, the woman confessed authentic barbarities and one of those who attended the filter confession what the woman had said.The story was published in several publications of the time and became famous.

Witchcraft

Walpurga Hausmannin was denounced as a witch, possibly by one of her neighbors.This fact was not extraordinary if one considers that It was very common at the time that babies and mothers died during childbirth and blame for what happened to the midwife.In addition, these women used to have knowledge about herbs and their healing properties which made them even more suspicious of be in relation to dark forces.

Walpurga Hausmannin: witchcraft, infanticide and sex with the devil

Sex with the devil

After the arrest she was tortured and confessed that when she was a widow for more than 31 years she had hired a neighbor for the work of the field and had stayed with him at night to have sex.Appeared the farmer, they lay together, and it was not until the end that he realized that the place of one foot had a fish.It was not his neighbor, but a demon with the physiognomy and the clothes of this one.He said the name of Jesus and the devil fled.Despite knowing that he had committed a great sin and wanting to He could not resist and the next day and the next days he sinned again.

Walpurga Hausmannin: witchcraft, infanticide and sex with the devil

The demon in exchange for ridding her of poverty made her sign a contract and made a mark on her back.He gave her an ointment to kill people, animals and plants. The more victims the better should be charged.I explain that I had been forced to deny Jesus after a great beating that belcebu gave him and to participate in meals in which he drank wine and they ate fried children.Although, yes, without salt.

Infanticide and vampirism

I confess to killing at least 40 unborn children without baptism and having sucked the blood of several of them.He killed them with the ointment that the devil had given him.He also said he had unearthed the children and used their bones and hair to make potions magic with which to do more damage even, for example, produce hailstorms that damaged the crops.I self-inflict the death of those 40 children, 5 adults and a large number of animals, including cows, goats, sheep, chickens and ducks, especially.

Walpurga Hausmannin: witchcraft, infanticide and sex with the devil

The end of Walpurga Hausmannin

Tailored that they were torturing her, the old woman added new episodes and stumbles to the story she explained.As she had attended Mass during those 30 years she was asked what she was doing in the sacred way.She said she did not swallow it and took it to hell , who said his name was Federlin, to be desecrated.Reading the statements of Walpurga Hausmannin clearly shows how he invents the answers as the interrogations increase and even on many occasions he contradicts himself.

Walpurga Hausmannin: witchcraft, infanticide and sex with the devil

Publication in which The confession of Walpurga Hausmannin came out

Finally, Walpurga Hausmannin was sentenced to the stake for witchcraft and murder, but before she died she was walked around the town and subjected to heinous torture in various public places.They burned it with irons, disembodied it and cut off the hand with which he had taken his oath as a midwife before gutting it.After all this they threw it into the pyre, which seems to me that, if it was still alive, it must have been a liberation.

Walpurga Hausmannin: witchcraft, infanticide and sex with the devil

Detail of «The burning of a woman in Willisau, Switzerland »(1447)

Did you know the terrible story of this poor midwife? Do you know of other cases like Walpurga Hausmannin ? Discuss them with us! If you want to know more cases of women victims of the witch hunt that took place in the countries of central Europe during the Modern Age, we invite you to read the post: The terrifying story of Anna Goldin, the last witch in Europe.

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