Source: The Professor (1857), Ch. XXV
“The tortured say yes to everything, and because they do not dare to withdraw, they must seal everything with death.”
Cautio Criminalis, or: Legal concerns about the witch trials. German by Joachim-Friedrich Ritter. Böhlaus Nachf. Weimar 1939. page 93
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