Sidonia the sorceress Author:Wilhelm Meinhold Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: And on the following morning, the holy minister of God preached from Matthew v. 11—" Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you, and say all mann... more »er of evil falsely against you, for My sake; be glad and comforted, for ye shall be well recompensed in heaven." And in this powerful sermon he drew a picture of Sidonia from her youth up; so that many trembled for him when they remembered her power, though they glorified God for the mighty zeal and courage that burned in his words. But when Sidonia heard of this sermon, she became almost frantic from rage. CHAPTER VI. Dorothea Stettin falis sick, and how the doctor manages to bleed her—Item, how Sidonia chases the princely commissioners into the oak-forest. Such a public humiliation the good virgin Dorothea Stettin found it impossible to bear. She fell sick, and repented with bitter tears of the trust and confidence she had reposed in Sidonia; finally, the abbess sent off a message to Stargard for the medicus, Dr. Schwalenberg. This doctor was an excellent little man, rather past middle age though still unmarried, upright and honest, but rough as bean-straw. When he stood by Dorothea's bed and had heard all particulars of her illness, he bid her put out her hand, that he might feel her pulse. " No, no;" she answered, " that could she never do; never in her life had a male creature felt her pulse." At this my doctor laughed right merrily, and all the nuns who stood round, and Sidonia's old maid, Wolde, laughed likewise; but at last he persuaded Dorothea to stretch out her hand. " I must bleed her," said the doctor. " This is fcbris putrida ; therefore was her thirst so great: she must stripher arm till he bleed her." But no one can persuade her to this—strip her arm! no, never could she do it; she would die ...« less