WEBVTT - The Extreme and Brutal Pappenheimer Witch Trial

0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:06.400
<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shonda land Audio in

0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:15.880
<v Speaker 1>partnership with I Heart Radio. They were a family accused

0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.160
<v Speaker 1>of murdering pregnant women for the purpose of making candles

0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:23.600
<v Speaker 1>out of those unborn babies, and you couldn't convince anyone otherwise.

0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.920
<v Speaker 1>You should know now that this show is going to

0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.320
<v Speaker 1>talk about some very extreme methods of torture that will

0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.600
<v Speaker 1>be near the end of the show. Welcome to Criminalia.

0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:38.280
<v Speaker 1>I'm Maria tre Marquis and I'm Holly Fry. The time

0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:40.879
<v Speaker 1>was the end of the sixteenth century and beginning of

0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.879
<v Speaker 1>the seventeen and the Poppenheimer's were an itinerant family from

0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.520
<v Speaker 1>Bavaria who took whatever odd jobs they could to get by.

0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.440
<v Speaker 1>Having been teased and abused because he had been born

0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.440
<v Speaker 1>out of wedlock pow less, the family patriarch ran away

0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.480
<v Speaker 1>multiple times during his childhood, and he learned to care

0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:03.760
<v Speaker 1>for himself elf by doing odd jobs in local towns. Anna,

0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.280
<v Speaker 1>the matriarch of the family, was the daughter of a

0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:10.119
<v Speaker 1>grave digger and grew up in the Franconian town of Ansbach.

0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.800
<v Speaker 1>Though her father's occupation was of course something completely necessary,

0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:19.280
<v Speaker 1>it was also deemed as a degrading occupation among the locals.

0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:24.199
<v Speaker 1>Anna was ridiculed by both children and adults throughout her childhood.

0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.640
<v Speaker 1>And when Paulas and Anna met and married, he was

0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.640
<v Speaker 1>a day laborer in the town brickyard and he was

0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.280
<v Speaker 1>thinking about how one day he would take over his

0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:38.000
<v Speaker 1>father in law's work. So Poppenheimer, let's talk about this

0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.480
<v Speaker 1>family name for a second. It's the name recorded in

0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:46.800
<v Speaker 1>their court documents, making them forever the Pappenheimer's, but that

0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:51.800
<v Speaker 1>likely wasn't the family's actual real name. They were likely

0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.800
<v Speaker 1>the game pearls. The word Poppenheimer described what Paulas often

0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.400
<v Speaker 1>did for a living, He cleaned privies, So maybe think

0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.920
<v Speaker 1>about it or like a family nickname. And there's also

0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:08.000
<v Speaker 1>slang usage that we can't verify, so maybe maybe one

0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.520
<v Speaker 1>of you can't, but we hear that the word was

0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:15.080
<v Speaker 1>Nuremberg slang for garbage man. Far into the twentieth century.

0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:19.359
<v Speaker 1>At this time in history, to set the scenes surrounding witchcraft,

0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.280
<v Speaker 1>there was a strong belief and a healthy fear of

0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.880
<v Speaker 1>witches and the black magic that they practiced. You have

0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:30.040
<v Speaker 1>probably guessed where this is headed. Paulas and Anna, along

0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:34.040
<v Speaker 1>with their three sons twenty year old Gumprecht, twenty year

0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:37.480
<v Speaker 1>old Jacob, and ten year old Hansel were accused of

0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.480
<v Speaker 1>crimes of murder and witchcraft in February of six hundred

0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.480
<v Speaker 1>and the case against them was based entirely on the

0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:49.720
<v Speaker 1>accusation of a single person. That person claimed to have

0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:53.800
<v Speaker 1>assisted them with murders of seven pregnant women for the

0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:58.080
<v Speaker 1>purpose of making candles out of their unborn babies. It

0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.880
<v Speaker 1>is believed that Paulas may have previously argued with that

0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.560
<v Speaker 1>man that accused them, but there doesn't seem to be

0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:09.640
<v Speaker 1>any solid evidence. After being accused, the Poppenheimer's were arrested

0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.480
<v Speaker 1>in the middle of the night, taken from their beds,

0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:17.960
<v Speaker 1>and then everything that could go wrong did fresh. On

0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.680
<v Speaker 1>the Bavarian throne there was Duke Maximilian the First, a

0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:26.200
<v Speaker 1>young Catholic with a strong anti Lutheran stance, and of

0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:31.040
<v Speaker 1>note here the Pappenheimer's were Lutheran. Maximilian wanted to crack

0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.120
<v Speaker 1>down on all crime in his region, and he believed

0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.400
<v Speaker 1>the display should be extravagant. The worst the crime, the

0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.280
<v Speaker 1>worst the punishment. Once they were arrested, the Pappenheimers were

0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.080
<v Speaker 1>suddenly catapulted into the center of a witch hunt that

0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:49.280
<v Speaker 1>was growing across Bavaria. The Duke decided to use them

0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.880
<v Speaker 1>as a political tool. This was one way he provided

0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.240
<v Speaker 1>an example of what horrifying things would happen to highwaymen,

0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:00.400
<v Speaker 1>grave robbers, and any other thieves among them. We're going

0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.760
<v Speaker 1>to take a break here for a word from our sponsor,

0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.520
<v Speaker 1>and when we return we will talk about how the

0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:19.159
<v Speaker 1>Poppenheimer's were not guilty, they were scapegoats. Welcome back to Criminalia.

0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.800
<v Speaker 1>So we're the Poppenheimer's instruments of the devil. Let's talk

0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:28.560
<v Speaker 1>about that. We normally would not know anything about the

0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.960
<v Speaker 1>Poppenheimer family, or at least not very much, especially not

0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.560
<v Speaker 1>more than four hundred years after they were alive. They

0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.520
<v Speaker 1>were peasants and the only time their lives would have

0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.680
<v Speaker 1>been documented would almost surely always have been in a

0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.320
<v Speaker 1>court record. And because it was high profile, this trial

0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.120
<v Speaker 1>was well documented, and the archives which can be found

0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.200
<v Speaker 1>in Munich are rich with details like the names of

0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.640
<v Speaker 1>the clerks, the lawyers, the jailers and even the judges

0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:01.160
<v Speaker 1>who took part. Individuals from the family his own circles,

0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:06.000
<v Speaker 1>including glazier Jack Jacob the Poacher and Nine Fingers the

0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:10.919
<v Speaker 1>Beggar were also noted as having been in attendance. It

0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.800
<v Speaker 1>may have been one of the most well publicized witch

0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.320
<v Speaker 1>trials in German history, but it was a show trial.

0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.960
<v Speaker 1>What we mean by that very basically is that this

0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.200
<v Speaker 1>was a public trial in which the judicial authorities had

0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:28.800
<v Speaker 1>predetermined the guilt or the innocence of the defendants. The

0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:33.080
<v Speaker 1>Pappenheimer's were chosen as a scapegoat by these authorities. Not

0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.960
<v Speaker 1>only were they peasants, which meant that they wouldn't be missed.

0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:40.080
<v Speaker 1>A known thief and liar had named them as criminals

0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.960
<v Speaker 1>while he was enduring torture before his own execution. But

0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.440
<v Speaker 1>still they really didn't have a chance, and there were

0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.880
<v Speaker 1>actually two trials. The first resulted in the death of

0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:56.200
<v Speaker 1>four of the Poppenheimer family and two of their accused accomplices.

0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.560
<v Speaker 1>Those were a farmer named Ulrich Schultz and the tailor

0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.200
<v Speaker 1>or Schmultz that may be smaltz Uh. It's a little

0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.279
<v Speaker 1>bit unclear in the historical record which of those spellings

0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:11.039
<v Speaker 1>is accurate. For that Taylor, the remaining member of the family,

0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.000
<v Speaker 1>that is Hansel, who you'll recall, was just ten years

0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:18.719
<v Speaker 1>old and five other accused accomplices were all sentenced in

0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.880
<v Speaker 1>the second trial. After their arrest, the family was taken

0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.560
<v Speaker 1>to Munich, where they underwent an incredible exhibit of torture

0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:31.440
<v Speaker 1>methods so severe that you or I or anyone would

0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:37.280
<v Speaker 1>probably confess to every unsolved crime and cold case in Bavaria.

0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:41.479
<v Speaker 1>We quote, as many as possible of the unsolved crimes

0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.880
<v Speaker 1>of the past few years were to be put down

0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.680
<v Speaker 1>to the account of the accused. A leading official in

0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.360
<v Speaker 1>the trial was the Duke's counselor. That was a man

0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:56.280
<v Speaker 1>named Johann Sigismund Wagner. Johan had long made unsuccessful attempts

0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.440
<v Speaker 1>to promote which trials in Bavaria, but that kind of

0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:04.080
<v Speaker 1>hadn't take and off as Bavarian court chancellor, he hoped

0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.919
<v Speaker 1>that he finally had his chance. And then there was

0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:12.440
<v Speaker 1>Alexander von Hasling. Alexander was a Bavarian general and a

0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.520
<v Speaker 1>witch hunter who, when Maximilian came to power, was chosen

0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.880
<v Speaker 1>as the leader of a so called war council. He

0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.880
<v Speaker 1>was put in charge of managing the Poppenheimer's while they

0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.880
<v Speaker 1>were imprisoned, and it is believed he really was not

0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.440
<v Speaker 1>actually interested in their punishment, but followed orders by the

0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:34.920
<v Speaker 1>Duke to use extreme measures, every member of the family

0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.240
<v Speaker 1>was tortured, and under torture they began to tell fantastic

0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:43.360
<v Speaker 1>tales of crimes of witchcraft, and they confessed to pretty

0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:47.640
<v Speaker 1>much any and all outstanding crimes in the country. Really

0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:52.480
<v Speaker 1>no joke. To be clear, this was not the normal

0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:57.800
<v Speaker 1>trial or punishment for a family of their stature. For them,

0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:02.200
<v Speaker 1>the legal systems should have worked like this. If found guilty,

0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.000
<v Speaker 1>they would have been sentenced to time in jail and

0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:10.320
<v Speaker 1>then evicted from the territory. But all the Poppenheimer's were accused, tried,

0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:14.400
<v Speaker 1>and sentenced for the extraordinary crime of having been instruments

0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:18.400
<v Speaker 1>of the devil. The official charges went as follows. There

0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:23.200
<v Speaker 1>are four to name. One quote of powless game Pearl.

0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.760
<v Speaker 1>It was said that he had crippled and slain one

0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.520
<v Speaker 1>hundred young children and ten old people by dint of

0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:35.360
<v Speaker 1>vile sorcery. The crowd also heard how he had entered

0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:40.120
<v Speaker 1>the sellers of innkeepers and other folks, shamelessly devouring such

0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.920
<v Speaker 1>victuals and drink as he might lay his hands on.

0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:48.400
<v Speaker 1>He had further confessed to having committed ten robberies from churches,

0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:53.080
<v Speaker 1>violently slain forty four persons by his hand alone, set

0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.880
<v Speaker 1>fire to homes or barns eight times, broken into houses

0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:02.880
<v Speaker 1>by night fourteen times, pillaging and robbing the tenants, robbed

0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:07.120
<v Speaker 1>wayfarers on the highway five times, and committed four other thefts.

0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:13.720
<v Speaker 1>Two quote. In like manner, his wife, Anna, being sixty

0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.480
<v Speaker 1>years of age, has assailed one infants and nineteen old

0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.760
<v Speaker 1>people with her spells, crippling them and killing them in

0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:25.920
<v Speaker 1>godless fashion. She entered sellers on eight occasions, has committed

0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.240
<v Speaker 1>one murder by her own hand, set fire twice to

0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:33.120
<v Speaker 1>the homes of others, has caused four gales and hail storms,

0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:36.400
<v Speaker 1>and has poisoned meadows and afflicted cattle so often that

0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:41.679
<v Speaker 1>she herself cannot tell the number. Three quote. The elder

0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:45.360
<v Speaker 1>of her two sons, called Gumprecht, has caused the death

0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.360
<v Speaker 1>of thirty children and adults by means of sorcery, has

0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:54.520
<v Speaker 1>entered sellers on twelve occasions, burgled and robbed nine churches,

0:09:55.120 --> 0:10:00.240
<v Speaker 1>committed twenty four murders, set fire to nine homes, oken

0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.000
<v Speaker 1>in by night, and robbed folds six times. He has

0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:08.480
<v Speaker 1>four times committed highway robbery, poisoned and ruined fields and

0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:13.319
<v Speaker 1>cattle without number, and caused strife between god fearing spouses

0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:20.000
<v Speaker 1>on four occasions and four quote the other, her son Jacob,

0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:24.199
<v Speaker 1>has slain sixty five infants and five adults by sorcery,

0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:28.440
<v Speaker 1>has ten times entered sellers, has committed five thefts from churches,

0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.760
<v Speaker 1>has put to death and murdered thirty three persons by

0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.720
<v Speaker 1>his own hand, set five fires broken in five times

0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.640
<v Speaker 1>by night, committed four other thefts, caused ten gales and

0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:45.439
<v Speaker 1>hail storms, poisoned fields and beasts twenty six times. According

0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:49.679
<v Speaker 1>to accounts of the interrogations, the Poppenheimer's confessed to whatever

0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:55.080
<v Speaker 1>authorities were looking for. After intense torture, family members began

0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:59.760
<v Speaker 1>to reveal the details from their Satanic indoctrination. They each

0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.160
<v Speaker 1>confessed to having sex with the devil, and on several

0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:08.439
<v Speaker 1>occasions they confessed to aiding the devil for power and money.

0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.440
<v Speaker 1>They confessed that they had given hair from their head,

0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.600
<v Speaker 1>their armpit, and their genitals to the devil. Also, and

0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.959
<v Speaker 1>we're quoting from the records here, a piece of nail

0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.760
<v Speaker 1>from the big toe that was of their left foot quote,

0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:27.200
<v Speaker 1>and powder of children's hands They reported that the devil

0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.880
<v Speaker 1>quote scratched them on their left side to draw blood,

0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.440
<v Speaker 1>which he then quote collected in a little box. The

0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.240
<v Speaker 1>family members described how the devil took out a sheet

0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.040
<v Speaker 1>of paper, placed it on his knee, and gave each

0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.280
<v Speaker 1>of them a pen so they could sign the pact.

0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.440
<v Speaker 1>Because the family had no schooling, the devil guided their

0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.720
<v Speaker 1>hands as they wrote. Quote. Then he wrapped up in

0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.120
<v Speaker 1>the paper all the things that they had given him

0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:58.040
<v Speaker 1>and took them with him. In total, the family confessed

0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:02.240
<v Speaker 1>to hundreds of thefts and murders, and they also admitted

0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:06.960
<v Speaker 1>to performing sorcery and black magic. Investigators in the case

0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.520
<v Speaker 1>claimed to have found potions in their possession, potions made

0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:15.600
<v Speaker 1>from the powdered remains of fingers taken from unborn babies. Together,

0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.800
<v Speaker 1>the family members also named possibly more than four hundred

0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.560
<v Speaker 1>alleged accomplices, but this was not because they wanted to

0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.280
<v Speaker 1>give up their friends and acquaintances, but rather it was

0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.960
<v Speaker 1>a feudal attempt at making the torture stop. Some of

0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.480
<v Speaker 1>the people who were named were arrested and executed. Some

0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.120
<v Speaker 1>of the people they named were not actually real people.

0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.560
<v Speaker 1>During their torture, Anna and possibly Powerless confessed to flying.

0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.760
<v Speaker 1>Anna claimed that at first she thought that a night

0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:49.480
<v Speaker 1>flight was actually a bad dream. She became convinced it

0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.719
<v Speaker 1>was real when the devil assured her that he had

0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.680
<v Speaker 1>carried her through the air. And at the time this

0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:58.719
<v Speaker 1>seemed like a pretty straightforward confession. Even most theologians at

0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.679
<v Speaker 1>this period said that which is really did fly, so

0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.640
<v Speaker 1>of course it made sense that Anna would have. How

0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.920
<v Speaker 1>this also confessed to having bitten a consecrated communion host

0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.200
<v Speaker 1>to make it bleed the host. To get us all

0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.880
<v Speaker 1>on the same page, here is the bread used in

0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:20.360
<v Speaker 1>the Christian ritual of the Eucharist, so for Catholics like Maximilian,

0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.520
<v Speaker 1>it's considered to be the body of Christ, and this

0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:28.640
<v Speaker 1>desecration of the consecrated host was blasphemy. Powerless, with this act,

0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.760
<v Speaker 1>must be, of course, in league with the devil. We

0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.960
<v Speaker 1>are going to take another break for a word from

0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.960
<v Speaker 1>our sponsor, and when we're back we will talk about

0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:48.760
<v Speaker 1>what went on in a place called Falcon Tower. Welcome

0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.960
<v Speaker 1>back to Criminal Lea, So please be aware this is

0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:53.839
<v Speaker 1>what I was talking about at the beginning of the show.

0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:58.239
<v Speaker 1>We're going to talk now about some extreme torture techniques

0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:04.480
<v Speaker 1>so the family had pleaded their innocence, but as this was,

0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:08.200
<v Speaker 1>as we mentioned, a show trial, they were found guilty.

0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:12.880
<v Speaker 1>They were sentenced to execution by being burned alive. The commissioner,

0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.559
<v Speaker 1>Commissioner van Grek, instructed that Hansel was to be an

0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:22.680
<v Speaker 1>eyewitness to his adult famili's execution right ten year old soul.

0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.600
<v Speaker 1>The family was housed in Falcon Tower, which was a

0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:31.480
<v Speaker 1>prison where their torture under Alexander von Haslang's watch began.

0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.280
<v Speaker 1>In the tower, torture would usually range from being hung

0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.720
<v Speaker 1>by your wrists to dislocate your joints. There were actually

0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:44.120
<v Speaker 1>a few versions of that particular technique do having to

0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.400
<v Speaker 1>endure such things as maybe torch burnings and and other

0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.920
<v Speaker 1>things like that. Children were often beaten with a cane

0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.920
<v Speaker 1>and this was all just the beginning for the family.

0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.600
<v Speaker 1>When the family was removed from Falcon Tower on their

0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.360
<v Speaker 1>execution day, according to the sheriff's for court, Hansel did

0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.360
<v Speaker 1>not have much to say, but the boy appeared quote

0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.320
<v Speaker 1>lively enough. The sheriff had been assigned the task of

0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.680
<v Speaker 1>documenting the boy's reactions during the execution, so when they

0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.120
<v Speaker 1>arrived at the place of the execution, Hansel as recorded

0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.960
<v Speaker 1>by the local sheriff, said quote, look, look what a

0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.200
<v Speaker 1>grand wedding for my father and mother. They've got so

0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.960
<v Speaker 1>many minute arms. The duke doesn't have as many himself,

0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:30.920
<v Speaker 1>so he clearly didn't initially understand what was happening. His

0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:35.320
<v Speaker 1>demeanor quickly changed, though, when flames engulfed the site, crying

0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.920
<v Speaker 1>while sitting on the sheriff's horse, saying quote, my mother

0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:47.720
<v Speaker 1>is squirming. The family's sentence execution by being burned alive, was,

0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:53.640
<v Speaker 1>as I'm sure we all imagine, terrible. But the level

0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:58.600
<v Speaker 1>of torture that Happenheimer's are subjected to is frightening, distressing

0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:05.680
<v Speaker 1>and tense. And Barstow historian and educator records of their torture,

0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:09.080
<v Speaker 1>and we're quoting here because we wouldn't do this the

0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:13.320
<v Speaker 1>justice that she does. So First they were stripped so

0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.800
<v Speaker 1>that their flesh could be torn off by red hot pincers.

0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.080
<v Speaker 1>Then Anna's breasts were cut off. The bloody breasts were

0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:24.760
<v Speaker 1>forced into the mouths of her two grown sons. Church

0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.880
<v Speaker 1>bells peeled to celebrate this triumph of Christianity over Satan.

0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:34.040
<v Speaker 1>The crowd sang hymns, vendors hawked pamphlets, describing the sins

0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:39.080
<v Speaker 1>of the victims. Meanwhile, Anna's chest cavity bled as the

0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:43.880
<v Speaker 1>carts lurched along. The injured prisoners were in agony. Nonetheless,

0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.160
<v Speaker 1>they were forced at one point to get down from

0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.280
<v Speaker 1>the carts and kneel before a cross to confess their sins.

0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.640
<v Speaker 1>Then they were offered wine to drink, a strangely humane act.

0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:57.840
<v Speaker 1>In the midst of this barbaric ritual. One can hope

0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.480
<v Speaker 1>that between the wine and the loss of blood, the

0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:05.119
<v Speaker 1>Poppenheimer's were losing consciousness. They had not been granted the

0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:09.119
<v Speaker 1>privilege of being strangled before being burned, but in keeping

0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.520
<v Speaker 1>with the extreme brutality of these proceedings, they would be

0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:17.679
<v Speaker 1>forced to endure the very flames. Further torments awaited. Powerless,

0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.200
<v Speaker 1>A heavy iron wheel was dropped on his arms until

0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:25.879
<v Speaker 1>the bones snapped, then subjected to impalement on a pike.

0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.760
<v Speaker 1>The four Poppenheimer's were then tied to the stakes. The

0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.520
<v Speaker 1>brushwood pyres were set aflame, and they were burned to death.

0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.840
<v Speaker 1>Unsel wasn't only made to watch his parents and two

0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:43.920
<v Speaker 1>older brothers torture and execution, He too was sentenced during

0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.080
<v Speaker 1>a second which trial just a few months later, and

0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.840
<v Speaker 1>as the rest of his family, he too was burned

0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:54.520
<v Speaker 1>alive in November of six A lot of us will

0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.240
<v Speaker 1>probably come away from this case horrified by the corruption

0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.520
<v Speaker 1>and brutality of it. The Duke saw this whole thing

0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.439
<v Speaker 1>is a way to help stabilize the region. But contemporaries

0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:09.160
<v Speaker 1>to the Poppenheimer's wouldn't have been as horrified as us.

0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:13.639
<v Speaker 1>Not really. Executions were often big events, with a large

0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.159
<v Speaker 1>turnout and pamphlets describing what had happened at the trial.

0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.480
<v Speaker 1>They would have agreed, or most probably would have, that

0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:24.280
<v Speaker 1>the Poppenheimer's were instruments of the devil, and they also

0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.600
<v Speaker 1>would have viewed the extreme torture and execution as a

0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:36.240
<v Speaker 1>way to cast out the devil and save those souls. Holly,

0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.720
<v Speaker 1>please tell me that you have a wonderful drink waiting

0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:43.240
<v Speaker 1>for us at the end of this. I find it delicious.

0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.080
<v Speaker 1>You are either going to think that I am a

0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:50.680
<v Speaker 1>crazy person or a genius. It is called burned at

0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.440
<v Speaker 1>the steak, which I hope no one will find too

0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:57.800
<v Speaker 1>flipward glib. But there's a very good reason that I

0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:02.560
<v Speaker 1>want to invoke fire here. So in thinking about all

0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.800
<v Speaker 1>of this, I wanted to do something that was very

0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:09.480
<v Speaker 1>classically German as a drink, and so I started thinking

0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:14.440
<v Speaker 1>about a cure shroyal. Hey talk about that. So it's

0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.000
<v Speaker 1>essentially that, but with a twist. So I'm going to

0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.520
<v Speaker 1>tell you the cure Troyal part, which is actually not

0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:21.359
<v Speaker 1>what you would do first, but I'm gonna tell you

0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:25.080
<v Speaker 1>how you put that together before the thing. So to

0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.920
<v Speaker 1>have on hand, you will have a half ounce of Kirchwasser,

0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.959
<v Speaker 1>which is a clear cherry brandy, an ounce of cherry syrup,

0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.600
<v Speaker 1>or I did mine with a mix of cherry syrup

0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:37.680
<v Speaker 1>and vanilla syrup because you know I love vanilla apa

0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.919
<v Speaker 1>you do, I do. You're gonna want a two or

0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.880
<v Speaker 1>three syrup e cherries, and you're gonna want three ounces

0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.320
<v Speaker 1>of champagne or sparkling wine. So that's what makes a

0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.359
<v Speaker 1>cure Troyal. That's nothing I've invented. That's a pretty standard

0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:55.840
<v Speaker 1>approach to it. However, here's the twists. Like I said,

0:19:55.880 --> 0:20:01.280
<v Speaker 1>I wanted to do something German that also honored is

0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:04.800
<v Speaker 1>not the right word, but references sort of the horror

0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:06.680
<v Speaker 1>of this, but in a way that is not horrible

0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:10.400
<v Speaker 1>to imbibe. D You're gonna take you know those small

0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:14.919
<v Speaker 1>like putting cup sized sealables like a you know, a

0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:17.280
<v Speaker 1>gladwear or a rubber made all of the all of

0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:19.560
<v Speaker 1>the companies that do them make the small pudding cup size.

0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.720
<v Speaker 1>You're going to fill that with sea salt, and to

0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.560
<v Speaker 1>that you are going to add five to six drops

0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.440
<v Speaker 1>of liquid smoke and you're gonna shake it and shake

0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.080
<v Speaker 1>it and shake it until the liquid smoke has evenly

0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:35.760
<v Speaker 1>distributed throughout it. And if you want, you can let

0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.760
<v Speaker 1>that sit overnight to make sure it incorporates. But you

0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:41.560
<v Speaker 1>are going to use this to rim your glass before

0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.520
<v Speaker 1>you make your cocktail. For anyone that hasn't ever done

0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.080
<v Speaker 1>like a salt room before, I'm sure you know how,

0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:50.600
<v Speaker 1>just in case you don't, you just dip the rim

0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:52.399
<v Speaker 1>and water, and then you dip the rim in a

0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:56.560
<v Speaker 1>shallow dish filled with the flavored salt. Then you pour

0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:01.000
<v Speaker 1>in your your kirschwasser and your syrup, rop in those cherries,

0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:03.840
<v Speaker 1>and then top it off with champagne. So when you

0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:09.400
<v Speaker 1>sip this, you get that yummy, fruity, sweet and bubbly

0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:14.399
<v Speaker 1>cherry flavored champagne cocktail, but you also get that smoke

0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:18.199
<v Speaker 1>sensation it's quite a cool thing. The other thing that

0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:22.800
<v Speaker 1>happens is that salt will augment the bubbl nous of champagne,

0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:25.040
<v Speaker 1>So it also is just kind of like a fun

0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:27.320
<v Speaker 1>reaction that's going on as you sip it as the

0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:30.080
<v Speaker 1>salt combines in that right, like the edge of your

0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:33.120
<v Speaker 1>mouth is the salt and champagne combine. It's an interesting thing.

0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:36.159
<v Speaker 1>Definitely smells like smoke while you're drinking it, which is

0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:39.280
<v Speaker 1>kind of fun too. I'm going to use this trick

0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:41.400
<v Speaker 1>all the time. Just everybody that comes to my house

0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:44.040
<v Speaker 1>should know it because the thing is like it is

0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:48.240
<v Speaker 1>very popular for people to use or um to be served.

0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:53.119
<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't say to use like smokers have smoked cocktails

0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:56.679
<v Speaker 1>in a bar, particularly if it's like a fancy pants

0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:00.240
<v Speaker 1>crap cocktails kind of place. Not everyone has a oker

0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:02.880
<v Speaker 1>at home. And I wanted an easy way to kind

0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:06.600
<v Speaker 1>of give that smoked flavor and sensation. And that is

0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:10.199
<v Speaker 1>it for the mocktail version. Super duper easy. You're just

0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:13.720
<v Speaker 1>gonna do your cherry syrup with a couple of cherries,

0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:16.520
<v Speaker 1>and you can either do like a sparkling grape juice originial,

0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:19.160
<v Speaker 1>whichever you prefer, and you can still do the same

0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:23.960
<v Speaker 1>liquid smoke rim shockingly delicious. You know it sounds it

0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:27.159
<v Speaker 1>sounds wonderful. I'm actually very curious about the smoke rim on.

0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:31.360
<v Speaker 1>The drink itself sounds right, I mean a cure. Shroyal

0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:36.600
<v Speaker 1>is a classic for a reason. It's it's delicious. Yes,

0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:40.040
<v Speaker 1>So hopefully that will take the edge off the knowledge

0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:43.480
<v Speaker 1>of what happened to the poor Poppenheimer's because this was

0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:47.119
<v Speaker 1>an intense one, Yes, this one. As I've told Maria

0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:49.000
<v Speaker 1>this season, I have felt like the heat is on

0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:53.399
<v Speaker 1>to make interesting, fun cocktail segments because the stories are

0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:56.120
<v Speaker 1>so rough. I know, we always end on an execution

0:22:56.400 --> 0:23:02.040
<v Speaker 1>and makes you want to have a drink. Yeah, yes,

0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:05.439
<v Speaker 1>So thank you for hanging in with us for the

0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:08.280
<v Speaker 1>difficult content and hopefully the cocktail is a little bit

0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:11.280
<v Speaker 1>of a save for that, and just for listening to

0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:13.480
<v Speaker 1>us tell stories. We will be right back here next

0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:18.359
<v Speaker 1>week with another story of witchcraft or sorcery, and we

0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:30.240
<v Speaker 1>thank you once again for listening. Criminalia is a production

0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:32.960
<v Speaker 1>of Shonda land Audio in partnership with I Heart Radio.

0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:36.679
<v Speaker 1>For more podcasts from Shonda land Audio, please visit the

0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:39.880
<v Speaker 1>I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen

0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:40.959
<v Speaker 1>to your favorite shows,