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Frankenstein Gravediggers Scandal
The Frankenstein town gravediggers scandal is the case of the capture and sentencing in 1606 of gravediggers from the town of Frankenstein in Silesia in the German Reich (now Ząbkowice Śląskie in Lower Silesia, Poland) who were accused of witchcraft, desecrating corpses and bringing plague. These events are related to the small chapel of St.Nicholas that still exists today, standing on the site of the old cemetery founded in 1552 at today's ul. 1 Maja in Ząbkowice Śląskie. History In 1606, there was a plague in the city. Eight gravediggers were accused of causing it (three women and five men): Wenzel Förster, a gravedigger for 28 years, and his assistant Georg Freidiger from Strzegom – for the mixing and preparation of poisons. Both were outed by the farmhand Förster. In total, eight people were arrested. During the investigation, the suspects were subjected to torture, during which they admitted that they had prepared poisonous powder from the corpses. They sca ...
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Ząbkowice Śląskie
Ząbkowice Śląskie ( ; ) is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of Ząbkowice Śląskie County and of a local municipality called Gmina Ząbkowice Śląskie. The town lies approximately south of the regional capital Wrocław. , it had a population of 15,004. History The town was established in Silesia as ''Frankenstein'' in the late 13th century by German settlers, during the reign of Henry IV Probus of the Piast dynasty, following the Mongol invasion of Poland. It was founded in the vicinity of the old Polish settlement of Sadlno, through which ran a trade route connecting Silesia and Bohemia. The town was sited on a piece of land that belonged partly to the episcopal lands of Zwrócona and partly to the monastery at Trzebnica. The town was located between the sites of two previously existing towns that had failed to attract enough settlers: Frankenberg ( Przyłęk) and Löwenstein ( Koziniec), and inherited its German name fr ...
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Kalatalo
The kalatalo () (also known as kalatailo, kalatalka, torokhkalo, stukalo, stukalka, torokhkavka, klepalo, bovkalo) is a Ukrainian folk music, Ukrainian folk instrument used in folk ensembles whenever a drum or tambourine is not available. It was also used by night guards to scare away intruders. In Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia, the kalatalo is used instead of bells during Good Friday. The instrument is made from a piece of wood with a handle. A second piece of wood shorter than the first is joined to the original piece by metal rings near from the handle. A hole is drilled through both pieces at one end and a wooden bolt is placed through the hole so that the additional piece can move a small distance. When the instrument is spun around it produces a very loud sound amplified by the stillness of the night. A variant of the torokhkalo is the klepach that consists of a wooden hammer on an axis which is swung from one side to the other. See also *Ukrainian folk music Sources ...
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