Herbalist
Katharina Henot
Public information:
Your knowledge in herbal is astonishing, you provide herb. Because of your knowledge in a wide variety of herbs, some people are afraid of you.
Private information:
You were just trying to protect your herbs. You and beer brewer are suffering from suspicion of the incident. What happened? Is your herb truly dangerous?
Ability:
Draw a private character clue beside exchanging from a player when meet. Only once per character.
Behind the character:
Knowledge and economic interests of liquor
High-level question:
Who is permitted to exercise power over you? And when reality slips away, what force leaves you feeling powerless?
Cologne, Germany
First female Postmaster in Germany
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She had inherited the postal office from her father Jacob and worked as perhaps the first female postmaster in Germany. They were in a conflict in the Imperial court with Count Leonhard II von Taxis, who wished to create a central post office. From 1626 to 1631, a great witch trial was held in the city of Cologne. Rumors pointed out Henot, and the commission of the archbishop arrested both Henot and her brother in January 1627 and accused them of having caused several cases of death and sickness in the convent by use of magic. She was imprisoned and denied bail and protection.
Henot was the victim of a conspiracy by the authorities of
the city.
"In October 1626, during an exorcism at St. Clare's Convent (the same convent where her sister and daughter lived), she was accused of witchcraft. On January 9, 1627, she was arrested and subjected to "painful interrogation," which is to say torture. She was condemned, strangled, and burned at the stake."
It is very likely that envy played a role in her denunciation as
a witch.