Making mice

The mouse making , d. H. The creation or conjuring up of mice - which were viewed as a plague - was an activity ascribed to witchcraft at the time of the witch hunts and one of the typical crimes of demonology , which as witches or wizards was ascribed to people, often very young ones. Conversely, witches and wizards were “recognized” by the fact that they could make mice. According to popular belief , children who were to be introduced to witchcraft were taught to make mice first.

literature

• Rainer Beck: Mäuselmacher: or the imagination of evil: A witch trial 1715-1723. CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-62187-1 .
• Ignaz Vinzenz Zingerle: Barbara Pachlerin, the Sarnthaler witch, and Mathias Perger, the Lauterfresser: two witch trials. Wagner, Innsbruck, 1858, p. 6 (about Barbara Pächlerin ).

Web links

• The Mülverstedter witch trial

Footnotes

1. ↑ Ludwig Strackerjan: Superstition and legends from the Duchy of Oldenburg. (Stalling, Oldenburg, 1867) Reprint: Contumax, Berlin, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8430-4123-2 , p. 241, no. 208; also Zingerle (1858), p. 6, fn. 1