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The Relationship Between Women and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Period
She seems to be really consumed with her past sins she's constantly talking about her despair and despair is seen as an awful emotion in the early modern period because it suggests that you don't believe in the power of God's redemption. She says things like the devil lives in her and presses on her heart and on her throat and eventually she dies on trial but I don't know in her case whether she's trying to commit suicide by proxy.