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Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | In league with the devil |
 | | She also hopes to find out how these witches - individual, historical actors with names such as Barbara Stetcher, Maria Holl and Juditha Wagner - ended up as the generic bogey women of the 19th-century fairy tale. |
 | | Her stepping stone is an odd case that popped up as late as 1745 in the small village of Alleshausen in what is now Württemberg. |
 | | Catharina Schmid, the 74-year-old accused of wiping out an entire family and a whole farmyard of animals, was forced to make her confession in the dawning age of Enlightenment, at a time when most sensible people were beginning to think that stories about dancing naked with the devil were frankly rather silly. |
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