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The Necromancy of Joann Georg Schrepfer

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The True Story of Shrepfer

Johann Shrepfer is said to have performed a thrilling and terrifying seance even after his unmasking by all of this. He was not appearing as himself, he had basically taken on this other persona. This lie caught up to him pretty quickly when a French envoy to Saxony heard of the alleged French noble with connections to the spirit realm. But though he had supporters there, he also had a lot of people that wanted him gone,. So he soon left Dresden and went back to Leipzig.

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