HOW MY POOR CHILD WAS TAKEN UP FOR A WITCH, AND CARRIED TO PUDGLA
The next day, Monday, the 12th July, at about eight in the morning, while we sat in our grief, who have prepared such great for us, and that it be none other than the Lizzie Kolken, a coach with four up to the door, sat six fellows, who all jumped out. Two and at the front, two at the door, and two more, one of was the Jacob Knake, came into the room, and me a from the Sheriff for the of my daughter, as in common of being a witch, and for her the court. Any one may how my me when I read this. I to the earth like a tree, and when I came to myself my child had herself upon me with loud cries, and her ran over my face. When she saw that I came to myself, she to God with a loud voice, and to me, saying that she was innocent, and should appear with a clean her judges. Item, she to me the text from Matthew, chap. v.: "Blessed are ye when men shall you, and you, and shall say all manner of against you for my sake."
And she me to and to my over my doublet, and go with her, for that without me she would not herself to be the Sheriff. Meanwhile, however, all the village--men, women, and children--had together my door; but they quiet, and only in at the windows, as though they would have looked right through the house. When we had us ready, and the constable, who at would not take me with them, had of it, by of a good which my gave him, we walked to the coach; but I was so that I not up into it.
Old Paasch, when he saw this, came and helped me up into the coach, saying, "God ye! Alas, that you should see your child to come to this!" and he my hand to take leave.
A others came up to the coach, and would have done likewise; but I them not to make my still heavier, and to take Christian of my house and my until I should return. Also to pray for me and my daughter, so that the Evil One, who had long gone about our village like a lion, and who now to me, might not against us, but might be to from me and from my child as from our Saviour in the wilderness. But to this none answered a word; and I right well, as we away, that many out after us, and one said (my child it was Berow her voice), "We would sooner fire under than pray for thee." We were still over such as these when we came near to the churchyard, and there sat the Lizzie Kolken at the door of her house with her hymn-book in her lap, out at the top of her voice, "God the Father, with us," as we past her; the which my child so that she swounded, and like one upon me. I the driver to stop, and called to old Lizzie to us a of water; but she did as though she had not me, and on to sing so that it again. Whereupon the jumped down, and at my ran to my house to a of water; and he presently came with it, and the people after him, who to say that my child's had her, and that she had now herself. Wherefore I thanked God when she came to life again, and we the village. But at Uekeritze it was just the same, for all the people had together, and were on the green Labahn his house when we by.
Nevertheless, they were as we past, some cried, "How can it be, how can it be?" I nothing else. But in the near the the and all his men ran out and shouted, laughing, "Look at the witch, look at the witch!" Whereupon one of the men at my child with the which he in his hand, so that she white, and the all about the coach like a cloud. When I him, the laughed and said, that if no other than that came under her nose, so much the for her. Item, it was in Pudgla than at the mill. The people so thick on the hill, the castle, that we our way through, and the Sheriff the death-bell in the castle-tower to as an avisum. Whereupon more and more people came out of the ale-houses and cottages. Some out, "Is that the witch?" Others, again, "Look at the parson's witch! the parson's witch!" and much more, which for very I may not write. They up the out of the which ran from the castle-kitchen and it upon us; item, a great stone, the which one of the so that it shied, and would have the coach had not a man and it in. All this the castle-gates, where the Sheriff and looking on, with a heron's in his hat. But so soon as the was again, he came to the coach and at my child, saying, "See, maid, not come to me, and here art nevertheless!" Whereupon she answered, "Yea, I come; and may you one day come your judge as I come you"; I said, Amen, and asked him how his answer God and man for what he had done to a man like myself and to my child? But he answered, saying, Why had I come with her? And when I told him of the people here, item, of the miller's man, he said that it was not his fault, and the people all around with his fist, for they were making a great noise. Thereupon he my child to and to him, and her into the castle; the constable, who would have gone with them, to at the of the steps, and to the to the upper rooms alone with my child.
But she me privately, "Do not me, father"; and I presently after them. Hearing by their voices in which they were, I my ear against the door to listen. And the offered to her that if she would love him should her, saying he had power to save her from the people; but that if she would not, she should go the next day, and she might herself how it would with her, that he had many to prove that she had played the with Satan, and had him to her. Hereupon she was silent, and only sobbed, which the arch-rogue took as a good sign, and on: "If you have had Satan himself for a sweetheart, you surely may love me." And he to her and would have taken her in his arms, as I perceived; for she gave a loud scream, and to the door; but he her fast, and and as the him. I was about to go in when I her him in the face, saying, "Get me, Satan," so that he let her go. Whereupon she ran out at the door so that she me on the ground, and upon me with a loud cry. Hereat the Sheriff, who had her, started, but presently out, "Wait, parson, I will teach to listen!" and ran out and to the who on the steps below. He him me up in one dungeon, that I was an eavesdropper, and then return and my child into another. But he of it when we had come the winding-stair, and said he would me this time, and that the might let me go, and only lock up my child very fast, and the key to him, she was a person, as he had at the very which he had her.
Hereupon my child was from me, and I in a upon the steps. I know not how I got them; but when I came to myself, I was in the his room, and his wife was water in my face. There I passed the night in a chair, and more than I prayed, that my was shaken, and the Lord came not to it.
