In a small, early sixteenth-century German village wracked by a severe famine, a friar, armed with a book called the Malleus Maleficarum, claims that he can alleviate the witch's spell causing
the town's problems, a claim that leads G�e, an older woman accused of witchcraft by her daughter in law, and other women, to pay a terrible price. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.