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TIL of the Pappenheimer witch trial, in which the Pappenheimer family was executed after being accused of witchcraft - the accuser desiring to promote witch trials in Bavaria and also to close a variety of other unclosed cases. Despite this, witch trials remained unpopular and rare.

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