Then they were burned at the stake all together, which was just and right; and everybody went from all the countryside to see it.

I went, too; but when I saw that one of them was a bonny, sweet girl I used to play with, and looked so pitiful there chained to the stake, and her mother crying over her and devouring her with kisses and clinging around her neck, and saying, "Oh, my God! Oh, my God!" it was too dreadful, and I went away.
It was bitter cold weather when Gottfried's grandmother was burned.

It was charged that she had cured bad headaches by kneading the person's head and neck with her fingers--as she said--but really by the Devil's help, as everybody knew.

They were going to examine her, but she stopped them, and confessed straight off that her power was from the Devil.

So they appointed to burn her next morning, early, in our market-square.
The officer who was to prepare the fire was there first, and prepared it.