Hochnötige unterthanige wemütige Klage der frommen Unschültigen (Much Needed, Humble, and Woeful Complaint of the Pious Innocent)
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Description:
Manuscript version. A photographic reproduction from the original copper plate depicts the torture of Christine Böffgen, who refused to confess and died on the fourth day of torture in 1631. In the 1630s, Löher was a law court official at Rheinbach during two periods of intense witch persecution that resulted in the death of one person out of every two families. His experience led him to write this exposé on the horrors of torture, but out of fear of reprisal, he did not publish it for 45 years.