"Go on, go on!" urged the bailiff Gretge. Who else was there? You can still save your soul, so speak. Gretge glanced briefly at Prott, believing she could draw hope for herself from his words if she just kept talking. "Tibke von Bartelsdorf," whispered Gretge. With these words, the fate of Tibke von Bartelsdorf was sealed, as declared by Margarethe Meinken, known as Gretge, who was sentenced to death at the stake. Jürgen Hoops von Scheessel vividly depicts the suffering and life of Tibke in this historical novel, a woman who loses her first husband in a tragic accident. She marries a second time and survives the horrors of the Thirty Years' War and the hard times that follow unscathed with her family. However, she is struck hard by fate once again: she is accused of witchcraft and imprisoned. The pac.