The Amber Witch the Most Interesting Trial for Witchcraft Ever Known (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Amber Witch the Most Interesting Trial for Witchcraft Ever KnownThe descent of our biographer cannot, on account of the beginning of his work being lost, be any longer determined with accuracy. At all events, he appears not to have been a Pomeranian, for at one time he speaks of Silesia, where he had been in his youth then he mentions far-dispersed relatives, not only in Hamburg and Cologne, but even in Antwerp, and betrays principally by his Southern German language his foreign origin. I have remarked especially the expressions, such as ez'm for ez'nem and the peculiar derivation of many adjectives, viz touca'n from Tanne, seidz'n from Seide a kind of dialect, which, as far as I know, has never been used in Pome rania, but rather in Swabia. Yet at the period of the composition of his work, he must have already lived a long time in Pomerania, because he still more frequently intermixes low German expressions, (platt deutsche) in every respect, just as native Pomeranian writers of that time were wont to do.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.