Anna Goeldin - The Last Witch

He thinks long and hard before actually saying it.

Walter Hauser knows that his words could sound sensational, or even cynical. After some hesitation, he finally utters: She was the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Europe. Even now, well over years after an executioner from Glarus beheaded her on June 13, , people from all over the world are still captivated by her story.

He knows everything there is to know about her life. Having grown up in Glarus himself, Hauser stresses the need for such a museum. Her story has everything a good drama needs: Her family was poor and were right at the bottom of the social hierarchy. At the young age of 15, she had to earn money as a maid and worked in various households in her home village of Sennwald. When she was 31, she got pregnant with her first child.

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The father was a mercenary who left the country before the child was born. For the first time in her life she experienced the cruelty of justice. She gave birth to a healthy boy.

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Due to their social differences, it was impossible for them to get married, no matter how hard Melchior Zwicky fought for it. It is not known what happened to their son. She has spent a long time preparing for this part. During her trial , official allegations of witchcraft were avoided, and the court protocols were destroyed. The sentence does therefore not strictly qualify as that of a witch trial. Still, because of the apparent witchhunt that led to the sentence, the execution sparked outrage throughout Switzerland and the Holy Roman Empire.

In , Gertrud Pinkus released a film based on Hasler's book.

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A plaque on the building's facade explains the lamps' significance. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sennwald , Republic of the Swiss.



All went well to begin with, until one morning one of the Tschudi children found a needle in her milk. Two days later needles appeared in the bread as well and suspicion fell upon Anna.

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The house where Anna Goeldi was a maid Despite her protestations of innocence, she was sacked by the Tschudis, accused of witchcraft, tortured, and finally executed. But today Walter Hauser, a local journalist, does not believe Anna died because isolated Glarus remained mired in medieval superstition. Researching the original records of the case, he found something far more banal. Adultery was a crime then. He stood to lose everything if he was found out. Mr Hauser calls Anna's trial and execution "judicial murder".

They wanted her out of the way, accusing her of being a witch. It was a legal way to kill her. Confession under torture This woman, who could neither read nor write, was questioned day and night by the religious and political leaders of Glarus. She insisted on her innocence, so they tortured her, hanging her up by her thumbs and tying stones to her feet.

Anna Goeldi was executed in When she finally confessed, it was to all sorts of bizarre cliches. The devil had appeared to her in the form of a black dog. The needles had been given to her by Satan. But once free of the torture, she withdrew her confession. They tortured her again so brutally that she confessed again, and stuck with her confession. Two weeks later, she was led out to the public square, where her head was cut off with a sword. Fritz Schiesser, who today represents Glarus in the Swiss parliament, believes it is time to officially acknowledge this as a miscarriage of justice.

At the local high school, many students are uncomfortable about reviving this old story. Switzerland used it for years as justification for not apologising for the way it turned away Jewish refugees during World War II.