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- Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was accused of witchcraft. The proceedings led to a criminal trial that lasted six years, with Kepler conducting his mother's defense.
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Dec 28, 2015 · In 1615, 24 witnesses accused Katharina Kepler, the astronomer’s mother, of being a witch. The evidence: She magically appeared through closed doors; paralyzed the schoolmaster with a drink...
A witch trial was initiated by Lutherus Einhorn who in his reign as Vogt of the Protestant town of Leonberg (1613–1629) accused fifteen women of sorcery and executed eight of them by burning.
Oct 21, 2015 · A woman in her late 70s, Katharina Kepler withstood a trial and final imprisonment, during which she was chained to the floor for more than a year. Kepler’s defence was a rhetorical...
In 1615, an illiterate widow is accused of witchcraft in a German town. Her son, the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, conducts her defence in a trial that drags on for six years. In this enthralling book, Ulinka Rublack reconstructs the struggle over Katharina Kepler's fate.
Oct 29, 2021 · In 17th century Germany, the mother of famed astronomer Johannes Kepler, Katharina Kepler, was accused of being a witch. Neighbors and people in her town said Katharina, an herbalist, was practicing dark magic, putting spells on people and animals and even poisoning someone.
Oct 28, 2021 · Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was accused of witchcraft. The proceedings led to a criminal trial that lasted six years, with Kepler conducting his mother's defense.
Katharina was disowned by two of her other children and spent 14 months of the trial period living in a prison cell, attached to the floor with an iron chain. She emerged both physically and emotionally exhausted, and died just six months later.
