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Switzerland 1652: an eleven-year old girl, a strong-willed child
with rich imagination, who grows up without parents in a remote
valley, claims that she can create birds. The girl is arrested,
accused of witchcraft, put to a long and painful trial in Lucerne
and finally executed. She was punished for assuming creative power
which was God's alone. It was with good reasons that the
authorities had chosen the parentless child for an exemplary trial:
she was the weakest member of a community of rebelling peasant
farmers, whom they wanted to bring to reason. Seven years later a
similar case, this time in Upper Swabia, one of the German
territories: A boy of nine years and his eleven-year old sister are
suspected and condemned for alleged sexual relations with the
devil. Because they were found to be too young to be executed, they
were kept for four long years in the monastery of Buchau, until the
verdict could be executed. Translated from the original work of
Swiss writer Eveline Hasler, The Child Witches of Lucerne and
Buchau, provides a moving memorial for these children convicted and
executed for witchcraft.
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