Franz Buirmann, Witch-Finder of Cologne

In Cologne, the chivalrous Franz Buirmann was so kind as to arrest a woman on charges of witchcraft when she refused to warm to his sexual advances. She was henceforth tortured, "raped by the torturer's assistant and then burned alive" (Farrington 58).

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Franz Buirmann, Witch-Finder of Cologne copyrighted 1996-1998 to Shantell Powell.