Written as the chronicle of Abraham Schweidler, pastor of Coserow on the island of Usedom, the story tells how war and famine struck his parish, how his daughter Mary found amber on the shore, and how envy and a powerful enemy brought her before the court as a witch.
Meinhold passed it off as a genuine seventeenth-century manuscript, and the hoax fooled scholars; translated by Lady Duff Gordon. Download the free EPUB.