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00:03Witches! Witches! Witches! Witches! Witches!
00:16From just beyond the edge of light,
00:21from the deeper darkness where no living being has ever walked,
00:25comes the terror of those who have given their souls to the devil.
00:32This is the story of one such creature.
00:36This is the story of a witch.
00:42Across the pages of history lurk the ominous shadows of the werewolves,
00:48the sorcerers, the witches.
00:51Through the ages man has known the evil that walks in the shadows of the night,
00:56and has feared the dark spirits of the unknown.
01:00What lies behind these monstrous fears that has chilled the hearts of man since the beginning of time?
01:08Do these sinister creatures live only in the superstitious minds of ignorant people?
01:16Those who have studied the history of the ages,
01:19and who know the dark secrets locked in the vaults of time,
01:24to them the word witches brings a trembling fear and a shuddering terror.
01:38Great minds have sought to explain these things,
01:41and in the great museums of the world hang the work of the master artists of another age,
01:46giving mute testimony to the horrors of sorcery and witchcraft as they saw it in their day.
01:53To tell you this hideous tale,
01:56and to better help you understand these murderous creatures,
01:59let's go back 500 years,
02:02for that will bring us back to the time known as the Dark Ages,
02:06when the witches held much of Europe in their black grip of fear.
02:10And let us study some of the paintings by the great master artists,
02:13who lived in the age of witchcraft.
02:16And through their eyes and the genius of their art,
02:19let us try to understand these strange creatures,
02:23and the evil forces behind them.
02:26In the old books,
02:28we read that a witch is one who has given his soul to the devil.
02:34To do this, they must renounce God,
02:36and all other things that are decent and good.
02:40It is said that they make a pact with Satan written in their own blood.
02:45In return for this evil deed,
02:47the devil gave them supernatural powers of magic and evil.
02:52They could make their bodies disappear,
02:54or change into any kind of beast or animal at will.
02:58They were given the power to cast their ominous shadows across the lives of others.
03:02They could cast evil spells upon their victims,
03:05causing them to go blind or lose the use of their limbs,
03:09or even lose their minds.
03:11They could turn their victims' lives into nightmares of hell.
03:17For the devil is their master,
03:19and they must go forth upon the earth serving only the powers of evil.
03:25The witches would meet in the night at a prearranged rendezvous,
03:29usually in old secret dungeons,
03:32or in the black depth of a forest.
03:36These meetings were called Sabbaths,
03:38and were always held during the night.
03:41For the devil's greatest power was believed to be from sundown to cockscrow.
03:46And many of the finest paintings by the great artists of that period
03:50told the story more eloquently than words
03:52of the strange and evil things that took place at the Sabbath.
03:59The witches would appear for this sinister ritual in the form of all kinds of hideous creatures,
04:04such as beasts or birds, or half-beast and half-human.
04:09They would begin by celebrating what was known as the Black Mass,
04:13which was always conducted by some ex-leader of the church
04:16who had renounced God to serve the devil.
04:20The Black Mass will live in infamy forever.
04:25For here, some of the most terrible criminal acts took place,
04:30such as the slaying of children whose warm blood was offered up as a sacrifice to Satan.
04:36Then their bodies were thrown to the dogs,
04:39or roasted and eaten by the witches.
04:43Following this ritual, the entire gathering would throw themselves
04:46into the most depraved orgies of filth and obscenity conceivable to the human mind.
04:53But to these evil, perverted creatures, it was all terribly exciting,
04:58and it provided an excuse for their unbridled lust and perverted sex.
05:05The fact that it had to be carried out in utmost secrecy made it all the more thrilling.
05:11Yet those same evil, murderous creatures,
05:14who changed their bodies into all sorts of hideous beasts,
05:18and engaged in those unbelievable rituals by night,
05:22lived by day as ordinary human beings,
05:25such as shopkeepers, housewives, or farmers.
05:29And as the years went on, the witches continued their murderous assault upon the people.
05:36And it is said that they called forth all the legions of the dead to battle for the souls of
05:42the living.
05:43For this is the goal of the devil.
05:48From the beginning of the 13th century through the 18th century,
05:53witchcraft ran rampant through Europe,
05:55and was practiced with all of its blasphemous and obscene rituals.
06:01So, the Middle Ages became the Dark Ages,
06:06the age of witchcraft,
06:09the age of fear.
06:12But men and women, who still had the courage to fight,
06:16did so with all the weapons they knew.
06:20And after five centuries, the tide of battle turned.
06:25In many European countries,
06:27the practice of witchcraft was made a capital offense.
06:30Rulers decreed that their countries must be freed of this terrible scourge,
06:35and that all convicted of practicing witchcraft must die.
06:40Armies were called out to hunt down the witches.
06:43The fear was so great,
06:45that entire villages said to be infested by witches were put to the torch.
06:51The old records tell of flames rising high into the night sky,
06:55and hideous creatures streaking across the burning heavens,
06:58screaming foul obscenities.
07:02When confronted with death,
07:04many of the treacherous witches confessed to the most hideous crimes.
07:07Even the hardened soldiers, who were trained to kill,
07:11turned away sickened by some of their terrifying confessions.
07:15One group of witches alone confessed to the murdering of over 2,000 babies and small children,
07:22bought from the brothels and slums of the big cities.
07:28At last, the witches were no more.
07:31Old superstitions and taboos had yielded to the powers of light and knowledge.
07:38We, who live in the light of the 20th century,
07:42see the witch only in fantasy,
07:45as a hideous old woman sailing through the night sky on her broomstick.
07:50We are certain that these murderous creatures who walked the world in the dark ages,
07:55committing their atrocious crimes and casting their evil spells,
07:58never really existed, except in the twilight zone of the mind.
08:05But are we mistaken?
08:09From deep beyond the edge of light,
08:12from somewhere out there beyond the grave,
08:16beyond the dimensions of life,
08:19beyond the grave.
08:20Do these ominous creatures still exist?
08:24Let us see.
08:34This is the very witching time of night,
08:37when churchyards yawn,
08:39and hell itself gives up contagion to this world.
09:07How?
09:11How?
09:20How?
09:37Where?
09:37What is it?
10:00If I could have known of the strange and haunting experience that was waiting for me,
10:06I never would have driven any further into the hill country of Central Texas.
10:11There are those who say that it was all a dream and that it didn't happen at all,
10:16nor could it happen in the 20th century.
10:20But I tell you, it happened.
10:28Perhaps you will be able to believe it if I tell you about where it happened and the people who
10:32live there.
10:33To begin with, it was early spring,
10:37and there are few places in the whole world as lovely as Central Texas in April.
10:42But this is not the Texas of cowboy lore,
10:45for here, snug in a green valley rimmed by evergreen hills,
10:49are trim, clannish, thoroughly German villages.
10:55The German settlers came in 1846, seeking religious asylum in America.
11:01The green hills, the rocky slopes, and clear rushing streams
11:05reminded them of the hills beside the Rhine.
11:10From limestone outcroppings and the encircling hills,
11:13they built their thick-walled homes, most of them still standing,
11:17mellowed to amber by the sun,
11:19still occupied by descendants of the settlers.
11:25And they have kept the faith that made their grandfathers brave sickness,
11:29isolation, and Indian raids,
11:31so that it be kept alive.
11:35A characteristic of the valley is the great number of bells,
11:39church bells,
11:41the abenglocken,
11:42with evening bells.
11:44And there are the school bells,
11:46which have rung for a hundred years,
11:48calling the children to schoolhouses
11:49that were built by their great-grandfathers.
11:53Though English and German are spoken interchangeably,
11:56German is taught in the schools,
11:58and is still the language of social contact and of the home.
12:06And they sing in German.
12:09JDM
12:09God
12:09God
12:09God
12:09God
12:14God
12:14My name is the Lord
12:17A-I-Mohem, A-I-Mohem
12:19Th-I-Mohem, Th-I-Mohem, Th-I-S-iber
12:22A-I-N-I-S-T-H-O-C-H-I-N-N-I-M-A-
12:25A-I-N-I-S-I-S-P-L-O-C
12:28A-I-Mohem, A-I-Mohem
12:30Th-I-Mohem, Th-I-Mohem, Th-I-Mohem, Th-I-S-I-Sk-H-I-S-I-S-B
12:33-L-
13:00Yes, this was spring, the time of Sangerfest, the singing festival.
13:07I was trying to get to the village of Luchenbach, where a singing festival was in progress.
13:19You can joke all you want to about how far a sports car can go on a gallon of gas,
13:24but
13:24when they're out, they'll sit there like any other car.
13:45I was already late, so I decided to leave the car and walk into the village.
13:51This was the last day of the singing festival, and the last day I could take away from college.
13:57I was writing a thesis on the early Germans in Texas, and the festivals were important
14:02to my research.
14:03As I walked through the countryside toward the village, I thought to myself how lucky
14:08these people were to live in such peace and unspoiled beauty.
14:12And yet as I approached the old Burr Mill on the outskirts of the village, an ominous feeling
14:18crept over me.
14:20It seemed as if the dark shade trees above the millrace were about to swallow me up and
14:26take me back a hundred years, as indeed they soon would.
14:46I'm looking for a place to stay for the night, I wonder if you could help me.
14:50Schoenig's Inn, Mein Bruder Hans, good beer, Wienerschnitzel.
14:55Sounds good enough for me.
15:01Kirska.
15:03Her name was Kirska.
15:06It was a pity that such a lovely creature would be the one to tell me that I was too
15:10late for the festival.
15:12She was dressed in a costume of the old country, and had taken some village children to the festival.
15:19She said that her grandfather would be glad to have me at the inn.
15:27As we turned to go, I couldn't help thinking that the old miller could help me in my search,
15:32so I turned to him.
15:36He seemed pleasant enough, as I asked him if he could help me.
15:41But when I mentioned the words superstitions and witchcraft, he simply turned and continued
15:47with his grinding.
15:57I dismissed the old miller from my mind as overly sensitive, and we started walking through
16:01the village toward the inn.
16:03I tried to ask Kirska questions about the village, but she was interested in what she called the
16:08outside, what it was like at college, what kind of clothes were being worn by girls her
16:16age.
16:17Suddenly I realized that I was out of place in this village, with its century-old homes and
16:23clean-swept walks.
16:30But as we approached the inn, her mood changed.
16:34It was as if she wanted to help me, but couldn't find words to explain how.
16:40You must be careful.
16:42The old ones do not like to speak of the spirit, Sandra Hex.
16:45And your grandfather?
16:47Grandpapa will be glad to have you in our house.
16:50He will talk of anything you wish, and much of what you don't.
17:00That evening, after a good German dinner by the fire, Hans Schoenig, the innkeeper,
17:06popped on his pipe and tried to find words to answer my question.
17:10Ja, mein Bruder de Miller.
17:14De villagers, they are afraid to talk of those days when the spirits were about our valley,
17:20especially de Luchenbach witch.
17:23The Luchenbach witch?
17:25I think I talk too much.
17:28Surely after all these years, there would be nothing if you told me...
17:31I will help you when I can.
17:33But we must not talk of the witch.
17:36But I promise you, I'm not going to say anything to anyone.
17:38I'm just interested...
17:39Good luck.
17:40Good luck.
17:42I had just about given up hope of any help from anybody.
17:47Come in.
17:54This water is fresh from the well.
18:02Oh, uh, do you have to go?
18:05I mean, uh, well, I'm not having too much luck with the others, and I thought someone younger might be
18:12able to help.
18:13Someone like you.
18:14More help?
18:14Well, with my thesis.
18:16I'm doing research for a thesis.
18:18They want to help you.
18:20If they could be sure it was the German immigration you were writing about.
18:26But...
18:27Okay, so it's not just about the immigration story.
18:30So it's also about customs and legends and strange oddities that we're here about.
18:34And witchcraft?
18:36Listen, I didn't say anything about witch...
18:38You can be honest with me.
18:40All right, so I'm interested in witchcraft and sorcery in the old colony.
18:44What's the harm in that?
18:45The old folks do not take these things lightly.
18:49I didn't mean to upset your folks the way I did.
18:51But what can be the harm in a guy researching something that happened over a hundred years ago?
18:56You would have to live here, to know us, to understand these things.
19:00You're what we call Fremder.
19:03You're from the outside.
19:04They don't trust you.
19:08Are they trying to hide something?
19:11Don't you?
19:12Why are you so interested?
19:15It's just an academic hobby with me.
19:18I know there's a lot of talk about witches and warlocks and stuff like that.
19:23And a lot of people actually believe it.
19:25But I've done a lot of research on witchcraft.
19:28And I actually believe it can be boiled down to a simple mathematical and economic formula.
19:33How do you mean?
19:34Look, in any history book, in any age where there was widespread famine, sickness, want, you find an outbreak of
19:44women being denounced as witches.
19:46In the late Middle Ages, thousands of people were executed in Europe and England.
19:52In Massachusetts, 20 witches were put to death.
19:56All of these were times of widespread disease and hunger.
19:59But when your people first settled in this country, they had not only disease and hunger to contend with.
20:04They had the Comanche Indian raids as well.
20:08Little wonder, then, that the ugly word, witchcraft, was heard in the new colony.
20:13But what pleasure can you get from studying about all this?
20:16To better understand the witch hunts we have today.
20:19Witch hunts?
20:20You would think that after the delusions of New England and early Texas, the urge to hunt witches would have
20:25disappeared from the Western world, but nothing of the kind.
20:28The medieval idea of witchcraft was replaced with things like race and nationality.
20:33What can I do to help?
20:35Your grandfather mentioned the Luchenbach witch, but caught himself when I tried to find out more about her.
20:43Now, I've heard of this case before. Can you tell me something about her?
20:47There was a woman called the Luchenbach witch.
20:52My grandfather and granduncle will not talk of it because it was their grandfather, Schoenick, who denounced her.
20:58The settler that built this inn?
21:00Yes.
21:02In this very room.
21:06In that very bed.
21:10Don't leave now.
21:11I have an old book. Very old.
21:14Which will tell you all about it.
21:15But you must not tell the others about the book.
21:18You have my word.
21:19I'll just be a minute.
21:20Kirske.
21:23You have the sweetest smile.
21:26Is that what the college boys are telling all the country girls this year?
21:29No, I really mean it.
21:31I believe you.
21:33It's just that I don't ever really notice anyone until they get a little bothered and light up like a
21:37candle.
21:39You know, with your German good look set off with something simple and black, you'd look like a little cameo.
21:46I'd better hurry.
22:03As I finished my packing, I actually felt that my luck was changing for the better.
22:10Just how much better I couldn't describe.
22:14You'd have to see her.
22:28You said something simple and black.
22:32I did?
22:34Oh, yeah, I did, I did.
22:37Shouldn't you close the door?
22:40Yes.
22:41Yes, of course.
22:47Um, I'm not sure I've got you figured.
22:51Because I asked you to close the door?
22:54Well, uh, yeah, that and I...
22:56And you wouldn't want Grandfather to know we were alone?
22:59No, I wouldn't.
23:00Oh, you didn't think I wanted to be alone with you?
23:03No.
23:04Well, to tell the truth, I'm not sure what I thought at the moment.
23:08I'll tell you.
23:09You didn't think little country girls ever thought of being alone and things and life.
23:14But, uh...
23:15Well, who knows more about life and things and being alone than farm people?
23:20Well, I'll be...
23:21It's just that farm people don't talk about it too much.
23:24Too much talk ruins it.
23:27I'll be...
23:30I'd better give you your book now and go.
23:35Because after giving you your book, I have no reason to stay.
23:40Except on...
23:41One condition.
23:43And that wouldn't be fair to you.
23:51Do not...
23:52Friend her.
24:06Friend her.
24:06Friend her.
24:07Friend her.
24:07Friend her.
24:23Friend her.
24:25Friend her.
24:30Friend her.
24:31know how witchcraft and suspicion raised its ugly head in the early colony, remember that in the
24:36first year of the settlement, typhoid, sleeping sickness, and other bitter hardships were climaxed
24:42by an epidemic that took the lives of 200 of the 600 settlers. The villagers looked for someone on
24:49whom to blame the troubles. What better subject than the widow who walked by moonlight, the widow
24:55who was too aloof to speak to the women of the village, the widow who caused the whispers about
25:00a clandestine affair with the innkeeper, Schoenig. The widow witch, they called her. Witch? It must be remembered that this
25:08was a time when a man of power could conveniently denounce, as a witch, any woman discovered with him in
25:15his bed. Such a man was Otto Schoenig.
25:22Gear up.
25:39Well, Otto?
25:44Well, widow?
25:47What excuse is it this time, Otto? What excuse?
25:51I have asked you to give me more time, woman.
25:53I have given you time enough.
25:55You must decide between us.
26:04I cannot break charity with my woman while she is in burn.
26:09The villagers are talking.
26:12I hear their mouthing when I pass their doors.
26:16What are they saying, widow?
26:18They're saying that I have taken the bed of an invalid wife.
26:23They're blaming me for their miseries.
26:27The curdling of milk and the spoiling of butter.
26:33They say it is the curse of the widow witch.
26:40My washerwoman tells me that on Sunday last, the preacher read from the Old Testament,
26:45I shall not suffer a witch to live.
26:48You must take me away from all this.
26:50I cannot break charity with my woman while she is infirmed.
26:55You have broken charity with me?
27:00What am I?
27:02A chattel to be used when convenient?
27:06To function where your wife cannot?
27:11To lie with, but not to marry?
27:14Quiet, woman!
27:15Keep your tongue.
27:17I'll not be silent.
27:22For I fear this talk of witches was born with you.
27:29Is it you who have woven this web of spectral evidence about me?
27:36Is it you who have called me a witch?
27:43Oh, your face belies you ought to.
27:47Would you have me burned?
27:54Yes.
27:58Yes.
28:01Which is there for burning?
28:04No.
28:05No.
28:05Stop your shouting, woman.
28:07Let her hear me.
28:08Let all hear me.
28:11You belie me.
28:17They are here now.
28:19The elders are here to learn how you cast your demoniac spell over this house.
28:24No.
28:26No.
28:27No, you lie.
28:29I have told him how you cast your spell over my wife to make her invalid.
28:35She is in league with the devil.
28:39The widow is a witch.
28:42That same night, under cover of darkness, they took the widow to the graveyard.
28:48There are those who said that she waited proudly without fear, and that she whispered over and over,
29:00I will return, and with the self-same spire, I will kill all who bear the name of Schoenig.
29:12How convenient for Otto Schoenig that there could be no trial.
29:16Death would be by post-oak spire.
29:20They buried her not a hundred yards from where she had lain with the cruel and deceptive Otto Schoenig.
29:41The evil guy's been killed over the deadshed tightly, where she was at first place, and then looks like the
29:44devil's back.
29:45The evil man is at first place in the church.
29:45The evil Followers.
29:46The evil man is at first place, to say it's our evil man.
29:49The evil man is at first place here.
32:50There it was, the mummified face of the widow, with eye sockets staring.
32:57And among the crumbling bones, the stake, now petrified stone.
33:03What a prize.
33:06If I could but take the stake and the temptation was too much.
38:15And one by water.
38:57the next morning the elders came to the end they had fished the body of the
39:01Miller out of the blood-soaked mill pond there was no question of what had
39:05happened where they had also discovered the empty grave of the witch I tried to
39:12speak up but words wouldn't form in my mouth this was all a dream I wanted to
39:18tell them this thing didn't happen but as the elder continued to talk the
39:25sudden realization came to me that it was true I had uncovered a grave of a
39:32witch and now after 100 years she had returned to avenge herself
40:01the elder warned that no one should leave or enter the village until the witch be found and returned
40:07to her grave surely the witch would not stop at one death where would she strike next the only two
40:16villagers with the name of Schoenig were the innkeeper Hans and Kierska as the moon rose we did all we
40:27could do bolt the shutters and wait
40:30not so
40:45I'm
41:38And one by fire.
42:04I was the guilty party.
42:06Just as surely as if I had held the stake, I had killed them.
42:13I could no longer contain my guilt.
42:17And yet, some kind of power kept me from speaking up.
42:22It was as if I was hexed by the witch herself.
42:27I made up my mind to find the witch and stop the killing.
42:34The librarian must have wondered at my strange questions.
42:38Under the guise of research, I asked her if there was some place people could hide in the hills by
42:42day.
42:43Maybe some place where they went to during the Indian raids.
42:47Yes, she could help me.
42:48There were some caves downstream from the mill.
42:53I had my information.
43:03And so that night, as the moon bathed the hills with light, I crossed the mill race and headed toward
43:09the caves downstream.
43:11And so that night, as the moon bathed the hills with light, I had my mind to find the wind.
43:47There were some birds with light.
43:58I don't know.
44:49As I watched, fascinated by this beautiful creature,
44:54I couldn't believe that here was a vengeful witch
44:59who had murdered two and was sworn to kill a third.
45:05For a moment, I felt sorry for her.
45:08This lonely nymph, whose friends were water snakes in the moon.
45:14And she seemed to know every sound of the night.
45:23I don't know.
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57:28The End
57:51The End
57:56The End
58:22Later in the cold gray light, I spread the dirt over the widow.
58:27My feelings were mixed.
58:30Here was a woman who had taken two lives, yet she had been denounced maliciously and killed
58:37by the same stake.
58:39Was she witch or wronged widow?
58:44It is not for me to say, I am only glad that her tempest is over and she has returned
58:52to
58:52her hundred years sleep.
58:54I am only glad that her death is over and she has been killed by the end of the day.
59:03I am only glad that her death is over and she has been killed by the end of the day.
59:03I am only glad that her death is over and she has been killed by the end of the day.
59:04I am only glad that her death is over and she has been killed by the end of the day.
59:05I am only glad that her death is over and she has been killed by the end of the day.
59:05I am only glad that her death is over and she has been killed by the end of the day.
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