Since our childhood they fascinate us: witches. Whether riding a broomstick as the „Kleine Hexe“ does it in the book by Otfried Preußler or wearing a harem costume as „Dream of Jeannie“ from the American TV series – we cannot imagine to live without them. However how quickly one can be denunciated as an „evil witch“ and then be burnt
Whoever did not toe the line in the medieval age could go wrack in the truest sense of the words. One of the most dangerous places during the princedom Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel must have been the “Lechlumer Holz”, more precisely the chop-chop square. Defendants were not really treated with kid gloves. “Beheadings and kidnapping, that is only business. A question of reputation.”