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In a small, early sixteenth-century German village wracked by a severe famine, a friar, armed with a book called the Malleus Maleficarum, claims that he can alleviate the witch's spell causing the town's problems, a claim that leads Güde, an older woman accused of witchcraft by her daughter-in-law, and other women, to pay a terrible price. A first novel. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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  • United States
  • Contemporary
  • Historical

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