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Now dear child, here you have all my confession, for which I must die.

And they are sheer lies and made-up things, so help me God.

For all this I was forced to say through fear of the torture which was threatened beyond what I had already endured.

For they never leave off with the torture till one confesses something ; be he never so good, he must be a witch.

Nobody escapes, though he were an earl.

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