Walpurga Hausmannin was a true vision of a frightening witch, who died in 1587. She was involved in horrible activities including vampirism, cannibalism, murder and infanticide. She confessed to making a pact with demons and using dark magic. Many can assume that she was one of many unfortunate victims of witch mania that was rife throughout Medieval Europe. However, there seems to be a lot more to her and she didn't seem at all worried about admitting anything.
It all began in Dillingen, Bavaria, where she worked as a respected midwife for two decades. Soon after the death of her husband, she grew lonely, and sought company of a man who lived in the neighbourhood. She expected him to visit her at home one evening, but another man arrived instead, who was named Federlin. They got intimate and then she realised that he was a demon, who soon left quickly after she cried out. Federlin returned another day and wooed her, promising her security and love if she gave herself to him. She became convinced that he was in love with her, and she started to do creepy things that he told her to do. Some of those things she was ordered to do by him was to kill animals and people.
Federlin often raped her whenever and wherever he could. She was totally and completely under his control. As she worked as a midwife, she used her position to kill helpless mothers and their innocent babies. She infected them with poisons and even used their corpses in diabolical feasts. She was sentenced to death by the Archbishop of Augsburg. People at the time were far more upset that she rejected the Church than with all of her killing spree on women and children. As a witch who openly confessed what she'd done, she was given brutal punishment. She was mutilated with red hot pincers, and then torn to pieces by an angry mob. Still alive, her disfigured hand was chopped off, then she was lashed on the wooden stake where she would shortly then be burned to death. Afterwards, her executioner gathered up her remains and threw it in the river.
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