1844 THE AMBER WITCH - Meinhold, 1st Ed - WITCH TRIALS WITCHCRAFT HOAX OCCULT

Mary Schweidler, THE AMBER WITCH. THE MOST INTERESTING TRIAL FOR WITCHCRAFT EVEN KNOWN. PRINTED FROM AN IMPERFECT MANUSCRIPT BY HER FATHER ABRAHAM SCWEIDLER, THE PASTOR OF COSEROW, IN THE ISLAND OF USEDOM Book Details + Condition: John Murray (London). Very scarce First Edition from 1844. Original marbled boards with three-quarters leather binding. The first half of the book is "The Amber Witch" (171 pages), and the second half is "The French in Algiers" (176 pages). By Wilhelm Meinhold, and translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon. "The Amber Witch" is a German novel published by Wilhelm Meinhold (1797–1851) in 1838. The novel was originally published as a literary hoax which purported to be an actual 17th-century chronicle. Meinhold claimed to have discovered a manuscript written by a 17th-century minister, Abraham Schweidler (purportedly a pastor of Coserow and known for his fire and brimstone sermons) amongst rubbish in the choir of the old Coserow church. The manuscript cont