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BOOK II.
FROM THE BANISHMENT OF SIDONIA FROM THE
DUCAL COURT OF WOLGAST UP TO HER
RECEPTION IN THE CONVENT OF
MARIENFLIESS.
CHAPTER I.
Of the quarrel between Otto Bork and the Stargardians, which
caused him to demand the dues upon the Jena
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175
CHAPTER II.
How Otto von Bork demands the Jena dues from the Star-
gardians, and how the burgomaster Jacob Appelmann takes
him prisoner, and locks him up in the Red Sea
CHAPTER III.
Of Otto Bork's dreadful suicide-Item, how Sidonia and Johann
Appelmann were brought before the burgomaster.
CHAPTER IV.
How Sidonia meets Claude Uckermann again, and solicits him
to wed her Item, what he answered, and how my gracious
Lord of Stettin received her
CHAPTER V.
How they went on meantime at Wolgast-Item, of the Diet at
Wollin, and what happened there .
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CHAPTER VI.
How Sidonia is again discovered with the groom, Johann Appel-
Of the distress in Pomeranian land-Item, how Sidonia and
Johann Appelmann determine to join the robbers in the
vicinity of Stargard
CHAPTER VIII.
How Johann and Sidonia meet an adventure at Alten Damm-
Item, of their reception by the robber-band
CHAPTER IX.
How his Highness, Duke Barnim the elder, went a-hawking at
Marienfliess-Item, of the shameful robbery at Zachan,
and how burgomaster Appelmann remonstrates with his
abandoned son
CHAPTER X.
How the robbers attack Prince Ernest and his bride in the Ucker-
mann forest, and Marcus Bork and Dinnies Kleist come to
their rescue
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CHAPTER XI.
Of the ambassadors in the tavern of Mutzelburg-Item, how the
miller, Konnemann, is discovered, and made by Dinnies
Kleist to act as guide to the robber cave, where they find all
the women-folk lying apparently dead, through some devil's
magic of the gipsy mother
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CHAPTER XII.
How the peasants in Marienfliess want to burn a witch, but are
hindered by Johann Appelmann and Sidonia, who discover
an old acquaintance in the witch, the girl Wolde Albrechts
259
CHAPTER XIII.
Of the adventure with the boundary lads, and how one of them
promises to admit Johann Appelmann into the castle of
Daber that same night-Item, of what befell amongst the
guests at the castle
269
CHAPTER XIV.
How the knave Appelmann seizes his Serene Eminence Duke
Johann by the throat, and how his Grace and the whole
castle are saved by Marcus Bork and his young bride Clara;
also, how Sidonia at last is taken prisoner
279
CHAPTER XV.
How Sidonia demeans herself at the castle of Saatzig, and how
Clara forgets the injunctions of her beloved husband, when
he leaves her to attend the Diet at Wollin, on the subject of
the courts-Item, how the Serene Prince Duke Johann
Frederick beheads his court fool with a sausage
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CHAPTER XVI.
How Sidonia makes poor Clara appear quite dead, and of the
great mourning at Saatzig over her burial, while Sidonia
dances on her coffin and sings the 109th psalm-Item, of the
sermon, and the anathema pronounced upon a wicked sinner
from the altar of the church
299
CHAPTER XVII.
How Sidonia is chased by the wolves to Rehewinkel, and finds
Johann Appelmann again in the inn, with whom she goes
away a second time by night.
308
CHAPTER XVIII.
How a new leaf is turned over at Bruchhausen in a very fearful
manner-Old Appelmann takes his worthless son prisoner,
and admonishes him to repentance Of Johann's wonderful
conversion, and execution next morning in the churchyard,
Sidonia being present thereby
CHAPTER XIX.
Of Sidonia's disappearance for thirty years-Item, how the young
Princess Elizabeth Magdelene was possessed by a devil, and
of the sudden death of her father, Ernest Ludovicus of
Pomerania
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CHAPTER XX.
How Sidonia demeans herself at the Convent of Marienfliess---
Item, how their Princely and Electoral Graces of Pomerania,
Brandenburg, and Mecklenburg, went on sleighs to Wolgast,
and of the divers pastimes of the journey
339
CHAPTER XXI.
How Sidonia meets their Graces upon the ice-Item, how Dinnies
Kleist beheads himself, and my gracious lord of Wolgast
perishes miserably.
346
CHAPTER XXII.
How Barnim the Tenth succeeds to the government, and how
Sidonia meets him as she is gathering bilberries-Item, of
the unnatural witch-storm at his Grace's funeral, and how
Duke Casimir refuses, in consequence, to succeed him
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353
CHAPTER XXIII.
Duke Bogislaff XIII. accepts the government of the duchy, and
gives Sidonia at last the long-desired præbenda-Item, of her
arrival at the convent of Marienfliess
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BOOK III.
FROM THE RECEPTION OF SIDONIA INTO THE
CONVENT AT MARIENFLIESS UP TILL HER
EXECUTION, AUGUST 19TH, 1620.
How the sub-prioress, Dorothea Stettin, visits Sidonia and extols
her virtue-Item, of Sidonia's quarrel with the dairy-woman,
and how she beats the sheriff himself, Eggert Sparling, with
a broom-stick
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How Sidonia visits the abbess, Magdalena von Petersdorf, and
explains her wishes, but is diverted to other objects by a sight
of David Ludeck, the chaplain to the convent
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Sidonia tries another way to catch the priest, but fails through a
mistake-Item, of her horrible spell, whereby she bewitched
the whole princely race of Pomerania, so that, to the grievous
sorrow of their fatherland, they remain barren even unto this
day
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