The Witch Panic

By 16 74, much of the activity was centred in the area around torshoken. The priest there was a man named laurentius horneus and he was an uppen comer. Horneus viewed himself as part of a chosen my tasked by god with fighting the devil. This was his calling, and he was passionate about it. But that passion is also what made things so bad for everyone else, and that included the children. Many were beaten to extract confessions, while others were dipped in icy water. He even had some placed in an oven like some sort of twisted re enactment of hansel and gretel, telling them he would bake them