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There are 500 crowns to be shared among you.
I need the monk and the youngest of the nuns alive.
With the others you can do as you please. Go on!
Come on! Hey!
Hey! Hey!
Faster! Faster!
Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey!
No!
No, no! Please!
In the name of our beloved master, the Prince,
I proclaim to you that an attack from the powers of darkness is planned.
It would be sinful not to fight violence with violence.
The Devil is in all of you.
Wherever the hand of the prosecutor points,
you must not hesitate to follow.
In the name of justice
and our secret laws
it has been decided
that the Prisoner No.1
has profaned the celibacy of the clergy
and defiled the sacraments of the Church,
and that this person has debauched and blasphemed against God
and has committed sacrilege under the eyes of our crucified Lord.
Teach him a lesson! - He doesn't look so horny now!
Furthermore, out of this union has issued the Accused No.2,
whose body and soul have been dedicated to the Devil since birth.
Finally, the Accused No.3 has confessed
to illicit intercourse with the Devil on Goat's Mountain.
Ever since then impotence has fallen on our city
so that men and women are not able to fulfill their marital duties.
The Accused No.1,
who committed sacrilege four times under the eyes of our Lord,
shall have the fingers of his right hand chopped off.
Then he shall be tarred and feathered
and chased through the streets like an animal until he drops dead.
In the name of the Lord, have mercy!
Strip him. That way the women will enjoy it too.
Now for your baptism, with tar.
- Give him a nice bath! - Pour it all on.
Now a good shampoo for his priestly head.
This will keep your hair in place.
Now a little rinse.
The Lord forgive you. You know not what you do.
And now the Holy Ghost will descend on you
in the shape of lovely white doves!
He makes a nice rooster!
Go on, run! Cock-a-doodle-doo!
- Bring Prisoner No.2. - No! No, please! No!
Now for Prisoner No.3.
Father in Heaven, save me, please. I have never sinned against Thee.
Quiet, you witch!
Why don't you pray to the Devil?
Maybe he's better at fornicating than saving souls.
I suppose you think you'll be canonized for this?
- Or worshiped as a martyr? - Father in Heaven, save me.
Oh!
Oh, Father!
Father, save me!
I curse you in the Devil's name.
All of you will burn in Hell.
I swear I've never been the Devil's mistress.
She's the one who had intercourse with the Devil on Goat's Mountain.
He took her to his den in the disguise of a little donkey
and then they fornicated all night long.
She's the witch!
She's the witch!
- The show is nearly over. - Don't worry.
There'll be lots more in this town before long.
They say a witch's burnt body smells of sulfur.
Soon there'll be no one left in town.
Albino will be here any minute, my Lords. He lives here in my mother's little inn.
He's attending an official function. He's very zealous.
- Vanessa? - Yes?
Bring some more wine.
Is he expecting you?
Clean the table.
It's good to see some real authority.
The idea of justice in this town is like a joke.
There he is.
I am Albino. You wished to see me.
Christian von Merou, at your service.
Sit down.
We have an official communication from His Highness.
Read it.
I can't read.
It's a proclamation about Lord Cumberland's arrival.
He has been sent here by your lord and master, the Prince,
and entrusted with the difficult task of tracking down and punishing witches.
I am the witch finder here.
You are to report to him upon his arrival.
I am the witch finder in this town. ls that clear?
Witchcraft has become too widespread for local authorities to deal with.
You will prepare rooms in the castle for the three of us.
I shall also want to see a full report of your activities.
I don't make up the reports personally.
I leave it to my advocate.
She's very beautiful. A wonderful body, hasn't she?
Who are they?
The attendant and executioner of Lord Cumberland.
That means we can prepare for more executions.
Albino, if you got yourself burnt like a witch,
when the hot flames start to warm your arse,
you'll act human for a change.
You must come home, Father.
I'll come when I please. Those fires made me thirsty.
- Well, how are things? - I heard Lord Cumberland's arriving.
He'll see justice is done.
Like a vulture who picks a carcass clean.
- May God protect me. - And me too.
Cumberland is coming, the new Lord Executioner.
- That's why I'm leaving. - Say a prayer for those staying.
You have to get hold of documents on the hearings and confessions.
It doesn't matter where they're from.
We haven't got any confessions. I can't invent them just like that.
They'll want to see written reports on the course of the trials.
That's absolutely impossible.
We never had any trials, at least not publicly.
And there weren't any indictments, nor were there any confessions.
All we have are the sentences, sentences of death.
Cumberland will set things right.
When Mary was burning she swore Rebecca was a witch.
Your last words are the truest.
I always thought Rebecca was strange.
Whenever I walked by her I made the sign of a cross.
Me too, and spit three times.
They say a whole town was wiped out by Cumberland!
And with 50 children!
Nobody could be worse than Albino.
I can't wait for the day when he burns on the funeral pyre.
Cumberland has a taste for blood.
His executioner hasn't the best reputation either.
A real butcher.
Have you heard? He's bringing his own executioner with him.
Yeah, Jeff Wilkens.
He's the most famous head chopper in all of Europe.
They say he's a real bungler.
When he beheads someone, he can't even find the throat.
I want those confessions and I want them tomorrow morning.
But where will l...?
Even if you have to write all night,
I want to prove that those confessions were not tortured out of people...
brutally.
Here you are.
I wouldn't like to fall into his hands.
When he finishes with you the executioner begins.
The Devil has ears too.
I enjoy a good witch-burning every once in a while.
It's better than a boring sermon.
This town needed a man like him, really.
Bring us some ham and bread. I'm hungry.
In a minute.
Well!
Well, Vanessa.
So you like the young Baron?
That pansy who stinks of perfume!
I don't sleep with pigs.
I could have you denounced as a witch.
It's the only way you could get a woman!
You will pay for that!
Stop that witch!
I accuse you of having trampled on the Cross,
of having ridden to the Sabbath
and thrown the holy Cross of our Saviour into manure
so that the skies grew dark and the rain fell upon the Earth.
No, look at his face. He is the Devil.
I swear he rapes women before burning them.
Yes, it's true. Look, look! Look at his face!
He is the Devil, not me.
Cowards! How can you sit there like that?
I'm not a witch. I'm not a witch. I'm not a witch!
I tell you, I'm not a witch!
And you all know that. Why don't you do something?
Just look.
Look, the sign of the Devil is on her mouth.
She kissed him to bring impotence to the country.
She is a witch!
Ha!
Do you hear? She doesn't scream.
She doesn't feel pain.
Turn her around.
She is a witch!
May I see the indictment?
She's ridden to the Sabbath.
She's made love to the Devil.
She is a witch.
She's mixed frogs and toads with her own blood.
To poison Lord Cumberland.
The indictment.
The advocate has it.
You're lying.
We found the advocate searching for written confessions
so that he could forge reports
as you instructed him.
Is this an example of your justice,
arresting someone without an indictment,
behaving like an animal?
There wasn't any time. The witch would have escaped.
Ten lashes to remind him that he serves God
and not his own desires.
Jeff Wilkens, I place him in your hands. Do your work.
One...
two...
- Are you all right? - No! No!
No! No!
That painting's nice.
From the Spanish school, probably.
"In the lap of the mother sits the wisdom of the father."
Do you believe I'm a witch?
Lord Cumberland will know.
Do you think I am?
No.
You are the first person I've ever seen oppose Albino.
I haven't opposed Albino. I've opposed injustice.
What a beautiful room.
So this is where Lord Cumberland will live,
the man I've heard so many terrible things about.
He is a great man of God.
And you?
He's my teacher.
I've been studying under him for three years.
It was he who showed me the way to live.
I can't imagine you being so cruel.
I live to... to serve God,
to free the world from all evil.
That's the highest aim a man can aspire to.
Suppose they called your mother a witch, hmm?
Could you really stand by and see her be tortured and burned?
And still believe you were right? Could you do that?
May I sleep here?
Just for one night?
I wonder...
what it's like to wake up in a beautiful castle.
- I'll show you to your room. - Thank you.
Lord Cumberland will be pleased to greet a beautiful young guest.
He still has a long journey.
I don't expect him until the day after tomorrow.
Here. I hope you like the room.
- And where's yours? - It lies exactly under this.
Please... what is your name?
Christian.
- Sleep well, Christian. - Thank you.
Good night.
Oh!
Christian...
Halt! Right turn!
- Reporting for duty. - I am Lord Cumberland's representative.
- Who are you and what do you want? - Captain Alexander.
I have a message from the Prince. I am to place my men at your disposal.
I want the castle to be in perfect order when my Lord Cumberland arrives.
You don't need houses. The stable's good enough for you.
- Let me go! - Talk back to me, will you?
Stop it.
Come on, you miserable bastard.
I want the indictment on Vanessa ready.
I'll put it on His Lordship's table when he arrives.
Here are the accusations and the sentences, my Lord.
I'll examine them later.
I'm sorry I must go home now.
Will I see you again soon?
Go to the inn, prepare some breakfast and bring it back to me here.
I'll be back soon.
Vanessa Benedict is charged with having intercourse with the Devil,
of witchcraft,
and will be immediately imprisoned and tortured
until she confesses.
Now Vanessa is officially a witch.
There's an old expression:
to make a lie sound right it also has to look right.
Here are the charges, the evidence and the sentences,
for His Lordship, Gadshill Cumberland,
the mightiest challenger of devils and witches
for his approval.
- Come on! Oh, I'm stuck!
There.
Here, give me your hand.
- Ooh! Up!
Would you like the same for breakfast tomorrow?
Precisely the same menu.
Don't.
It's so lovely here.
This is my truth, what I can touch and feel.
It's wonderful.
Don't you feel it?
Answer me, Christian!
Why do you run away from me?
I don't like to hear you talk so frivolously.
Don't you realise the responsibilities I have?
What's wrong with saying and doing what you feel?
When I feel happy, not even the Devil can stop me...
Oh, I nearly fell in!
Do you care?
You know I care.
Sometimes I wish I could bewitch you. Come here.
- Be happy. - You mustn't say things like that.
Why'?
It's so beautiful here.
Vanessa!
Do you know you're dangerous?
Christian.
My Lord.
Let's see how you dance with the Devil. Go on, show me.
Show me how you dance with that pansy.
I couldn't find the Devil's mark, my Lord.
Perhaps you didn't look close enough.
I did look, my Lord.
She shall go in peace,
free of the suspicion of witchcraft
and unmolested by those who believe her to be a witch.
Thank you. Thank you, my Lord. You're a great man.
- You're free. - Thank you.
Next.
My Lord.
You're late.
My Lord.
Deidre von Bergenstein has killed an embryo
and then boiled the cadaver together with snakes and toads
into a witch's brew, made a sign over the devilish broth
and hid it in the earth under the porch of the convent that gave her welcome
so that Lucifer's wooden leg could step over the threshold
and the nuns who serve God in the convent
may receive large pus-infected swellings
on the arms as a sign of the Devil.
The accused sorceress has already sinned in the eyes of the Almighty,
according to my witness, four times.
Three times.
Oh, I'm sorry, my Lord.
The three looks almost like a four.
Continue.
As the accused will have to be called to give testimony in court...
My Lord, you must hear me now.
I was expelled by the priory
because I was raped by the Lord Bishop
and I bore his child.
Raped by the Lord Bishop? Fancy that!
For such blasphemies you shall first be stretched on the rack
until you confess that this child is the Devil's.
Then you shall have your tongue torn from your head by the roots.
Next.
I know before God that I am innocent.
I stand before the Saviour.
He and the blessed Mary are my witnesses.
I am innocent.
- I am innocent. - Let me go!
Let me go! No!
Take your filthy hands off me.
Where is the indictment?
I can find no indictment.
He's lying! The indictment is there.
Silence.
What is her name?
Vanessa Benedict, my Lord.
Speak up.
Vanessa Benedict, my Lord.
And the charge? What's the charge?
She committed illicit intercourse. She made a pact with the Devil.
After she let the Devil fornicate with her, putting a curse on the region,
making the men impotent.
The charge is sufficient.
Take her to a cell until the indictment can be redrawn and examined.
It's cold in here.
See to it that it's warm tomorrow.
You know, Christian, when autumn comes, I begin to get tired,
tired of traveling, tired of people, of noise,
the constant screaming down in the prisons day in, day out.
I'm getting a little deaf in one ear.
Last week a woman bit my hand.
Ah, well, just one of the hazards of our trade, I suppose.
I hope one day I too can possess your strength.
You're a good pupil. I'm well pleased with your eagerness to learn.
And your intelligence. They'll lead you ahead.
One day you too shall be a great witch hunter,
provided you never succumb to temptation of the flesh.
Take this... this Vanessa for example...
She's falsely accused. At least, that's what I thought.
Don't become soft. She is a witch. A beautiful girl, I grant you, but a witch.
She will confess.
My Lord...
Ah, yes. You may go.
I will take charge of the young Baron.
Young Baron Daumer.
His father was killed while hunting last year. I knew him.
Since then, it seems, the boy's been possessed by the Devil.
As representative of the high court which sits here
I inform you that you are now in my charge, Baron Daumer.
In the charge of a witch finder?
No one dares accuse me of witchcraft.
It's a plot by the cardinal bishops to murder me
so that all my estates and goods are forfeited to the Church.
Be quiet.
You dare to accuse the Church of murder?
No man of God would commit such a crime.
There is no doubt about it.
There is no doubt he's possessed.
It will mean the usual: torture and interrogation,
until he's free of this Devil.
Oh, I can't...
I can't stand it any longer.
We will see about that.
I'm innocent.
Stand up. No rest for you yet.
You don't look so noble now.
One day these peasants will take over.
See how they delight in seeing an aristocrat weak and in their power?
That's enough for now. Take him away!
Get inside!
Baron Daumer, I want to help you.
If you can free yourself of this... this evil within you.
I can save your life.
But if you continue to rebel against the will of the Church
then I can do nothing.
Look...
you come from a fine family.
I knew your father.
When he died he left his estates in the safekeeping of the Church...
Only until I learned a trade.
It's my inheritance from my father.
- It's mine. - Yes, yes, yes, yes.
But you must give up worldly goods. Surely you understand.
Sign everything over to the Church and I promise you your life.
Otherwise I...
I must denounce you as a sorcerer,
and have you executed.
Try. Try hard to fight the Devil within you.
It makes no difference.
If you are executed as a sorcerer,
your money passes to the Church anyway.
That's enough.
I said stop.
All right now.
It's your sacred duty to tell us the truth.
Name just one accomplice and the executioner will stop the torture.
Confess that you have been guilty of witchcraft.
Who taught you the evil science of creating impotency?
I'll tell you.
It was the robber who digs up the corpses at the cemetery at night,
makes oil of the bones and lights her witch's fire with it.
Go on.
Lets owls and other dead birds boil
and makes her witch's brew out of it.
- Have you drunk from it? - Yes.
- How many times? Tell us. - Often, very often, yes.
When and where did you meet the Devil for the first time?
Yes, yes.
Yes, yes.
No! The Devil, yes, the Devil.
- Pray, my dear. Pray and free yourself. - In the monastery.
When the Bishop threw me naked
into a rat's hole in the cellar of the monastery.
- You're lying! - Yes, the Bishop.
Stretch a little more.
I'm getting tired of this.
The whole responsibility's on my shoulders.
If I weren't around...
There'd be someone else to do the dirty work.
- Nice view, huh? - Yes.
All right, open up, you love birds.
- Nice.
Very nice.
Deidre von Bergenstein,
you stand condemned to death by burning at the stake.
Confess and save your soul.
I have nothing to confess.
Then you must die.
In front of death...
I thank you for your mercy,
for having me freed from the terrible agony...
of torture.
May God have mercy on your soul.
We must not let her die yet. I want confessions, not corpses.
She must confess that this child of hers is the Devil's,
not the Lord Bishop's.
Get me a confession.
Where is Christian?
You won't let him see me, will you?
He won't turn against God for you, a mere woman.
- I'll see to it. - ls that why you pretend I'm a witch?
- I know what you are. - And I know what you are.
The advocate has come to tell you something about Albino.
I felt it my duty, my Lord.
I felt it my duty as a Christian to report the matter.
He burst into a house to rape a poor young girl.
He'd been drinking a great deal and one of his soldiers killed the boy.
It was Albino who arrested Vanessa.
Instruct him to come to me this evening.
The man who killed the boy must be arrested and tried for murder.
Yes, my Lord.
- You're tired already, eh? - Been here since morning.
Give it another twist.
Well?
The sooner you confess, the sooner your pain will stop.
No confession yet. She's still talking about the Bishop.
- The tongue.
- Father, how are you? - Well, my Lord.
OW!
We must never weaken in performing God's work.
Yes, my Lord.
For those who turn against our Saviour
no punishment is sufficient.
Christian!
Christian, you know I'm not guilty.
I didn't do anything.
You know I'm not a witch. I'm innocent.
If you are truly innocent,
then God will show his mercy by proving it.
I'm not a witch. Tell him, please!
Christian, please tell him!
What my Lord says is true. If you are innocent, then he will know.
Can you only see through his eyes?
Can you be so blind?
Why should this girl know you by name?
The girl was falsely accused...
I believed she was falsely accused and l...
- I felt sorry for her. - What was that?
I felt sorry for her, my Lord.
- Sorry for a witch? - Sometimes I find it hard to...
The work of our Saviour is always hard.
Sit down.
Let's talk about it.
You're very silent.
I wonder what my reaction would have been
had my mother been accused of witchcraft.
God's will is greater than that of man.
- More wine? - No, thank you.
Sometimes I feel weak,
confused even.
I hate to admit this to myself.
Now I'm admitting it to you.
We understand each other, hmm?
As long as you confide in me, I will give you strength.
Come in.
My Lord, you wish to see me.
- I wish you good night. - We shall talk further about this.
You were drunk. A boy was stabbed to death.
There's been too much of this.
Too much injustice through ignorance or lust.
For two years I have been the witch finder in this town.
Me, Albino.
- Now you have come. - Yes, I have come.
The day of the local witch finder is over.
As from tonight, I relieve you of your authority.
Understand?
You may go.
- I am a man, like you. - I asked you to go.
I may not be educated but I'm not stupid.
This Baron Daumer, I know he's here and why.
We could work together, divide the money, yes?
I've burnt people in God's name too.
You don't have to pretend to me.
What about the women?
When they're tortured, don't you thrill to it?
You're a man, like me.
You only use God's name for your own ends.
We could work together.
We'd share everything,
the women, and the money from Baron Daumer's death.
I can show you where there are beautiful women.
- Guard! - I was witch finder here for two years.
- You can't fool me. - I can hang you.
I spit on your God. I am the witch finder, me, Albino.
You have me arrested and I'll make you the laughing stock.
Tear out my tongue but before you do I'll make them laugh.
I'll tell them you rape women, you burn innocent people,
that you kill for money, that you're impotent.
You're no witch finder.
You're dirt.
Go home and don't dare to come back...
Bury him.
In the sight of Almighty God,
you, Sister Deidre, having confessed to making a pact with the Devil...
Condemn to death by burning. May God have mercy on her soul.
We need your signature on the decree, my Lord.
In the name of Almighty God and eternal justice
this person stands condemned for committing blasphemy
and having illicit intercourse with the Devil.
Confess, save your souls.
Witches, sorcerers, confess!
Confess, confess, confess!
Confess, you scum!
No water!
Forfeit your worldly goods to the Church, save your soul.
You say I'm possessed of the Devil.
I'm not, you are.
Murderer!
Torture him harder.
Devil!
Why do you keep me here?
You've no charges against me.
Don't worry, I will have in my own time.
I know a witch when I see one.
And I know what you are.
I Hang the witch on the stake
I Pray the Lord her soul to take
I If the bell strikes the knell
I She will surely roast in hell I
Look here, I've got a mouse.
It has two long ears and is very intelligent.
- It can even do magic tricks. - What do you know about magic?
- We know all about magic. - And witches.
- Try to catch me, I'll tell you. - Come on, come on!
Children, wait for us!
Where are you going? - Wait.
What do you want? You can't break in like that.
I'm the advocate. Hurry, this way.
I am a great wizard and if I had feathers, I could fly.
Only angels and witches can fly.
- Then I'll be an angel. - You're not good enough.
At the most you could ride on a broomstick like an old witch.
Like an old witch?
But I want to be an angel.
- No, no, you're not good enough. - All right, then I'll be a witch.
That's impossible. You're not bad enough for that.
Who's making all that noise?
Who taught you to speak?
The Devil's grandmother who is sitting behind the oven
spinning witches' socks on the spinning wheel.
Ahh. Stranger, may I answer one of your questions too?
Tell me one of the ten commandments.
Thou shalt respect thy father and mother
so that ye may live long and happily on Earth.
Those puppets not only talk but can answer questions they're asked.
And they appear one minute and disappear the next.
They walk on air and have facial expressions like humans.
I tell you, it's magic.
Walter,
you haven't asked the gentlemen what they desire.
I beg your pardon.
I am glad that you enjoy our puppets.
These dolls really can do devilish things.
And because of the quality of the carving...
they really look like human beings.
Jeff Wilkens, in the name of His Excellency
I command you to arrest this man and charge him with practicing magic
through the intermediary of puppets with voices of human beings.
This Devil's mark will do as evidence.
The best place is on the stomach.
Mummy!
Murderer! Murderer!
- Help him. - No, leave him.
What do you see out there?
My Lord...
Hmm?
For three years I believed in nothing else
but you and your teachings.
Because I knew you were an infallible defender of God.
I have taught according to my best theories.
I am only a human being, but...
my cause is just.
God is just.
Just?
For you or for the murdered Albino?
When you asked me three years ago to become my pupil
I warned you not to see an idol in me.
"On the difficult path we are going to go together," I said,
"many innocent people are going to die." I said that to you. I remember the day.
Well, many have died, and there will be many more.
I know,
but then... where does safety lie?
There is no safety, anywhere.
Not for me,
and not for you either.
Yes?
My Lord, the advocate and I have discovered two witches
possessing human dolls that speak.
Human dolls that speak?
They're puppets, my Lord, for entertaining children, nothing more.
We are no witches.
Let her out.
- What is the accusation? - Consorting with the Devil
to trap human souls in these dolls.
They're wood.
My husband carves them. I paint the faces and dress them up.
- They are for performing plays? - What was that?
For performing plays, my Lord.
- What kind of plays? - Plays of the Devil. She's a witch.
For the children, sometimes stories from the scriptures or moral plays.
It has nothing to do with the Devil.
- They spoke about flying, like a witch. - Oh, no!
The play is a moral,
the moral of a proud man who wants to fly in the air like a bird.
He wishes to be something no man can ever be.
And when at the end of the play he wears a suit of feathers
and tries to fly, he realizes...
He realizes that even though he looks like a bird,
he's still a man.
Prepare the indictment.
No, I want to go to my husband. Where is he?
Fools.
Fools, they are puppets. Carved wood not machines of the Devil.
And you had no authority to make a public arrest. Only I have the authority.
Leave us.
- Fools. - My Lord...
- Why order an indictment? - Because they must burn as witches.
But they're innocent. You must authorize their release.
You know they're innocent.
Like Vanessa.
There's no charge against her yet you keep her in prison.
You know she's just as innocent as those poor people with their puppets.
- You know that. - I know nothing.
They have been arrested for witchcraft. There is nothing I can do.
They're not guilty. You must show clemency.
That's for me to decide. You forget yourself.
To release them now would only show weakness.
- They must die. - That is murder.
- They are not with the Devil. - They shall be martyrs.
If they are Christian martyrs, what does that make you?
The truth. Confess the Devil has possessed you.
I'm sure the Spanish boot will convince him.
Take her out.
No water.
No, no water.
Wine...
Guard, open the door.
Very good. Looks to be in order.
All right.
Christian!
Christian!
We can't stay here. Come on.
- Now I must go back. - No, no. I won't let you.
Why must you go back?
- I don't want you to. - I have to free Baron Daumer.
I suppose you're right.
Where is my husband? I beg you, take me to him.
You're wanted elsewhere.
Mummy, Mummy!
Don't leave me, Mummy. I want to go with you.
- What's the matter, Christopher? - The soldiers have taken Mummy away.
I want to go with her. I don't want to stay here alone.
Those nasty men, they make Mummy cry.
Maybe she went to get Father and he'll free us.
Have you eaten?
Some wine?
Are you afraid to die?
To have your head cut off? Are you?
Show me your neck.
It would be a pity to...
I won't let you die.
I'll set you free, and your husband and your children.
Oh... my Lord.
You are truly a man of God. How can I thank you?
How can I repay you for this?
You are truly great.
You knew. You knew my husband and I were innocent.
I saw it. I saw it in your eyes.
Look again.
What do you see now?
Stop it! Let him down!
If this works, you will have your freedom back
and I shall be one step nearer mine.
Don't you have any more work to do.
Carry on.
Hold on a little longer.
You can't leave!
Stop them.
The girl, where is she?
You helped her to escape. Don't lie to me. I know you freed her.
She was innocent.
She was a witch.
They are all witches.
Once I would have believed that.
Not now, not any longer.
I can't believe in your way anymore because it's not true.
Baron Daumer, he is innocent.
It's not true that he's in league with the Devil.
You say and preach one thing while you do another.
You've been kind to me, good to me.
I believed, but I can't any longer,
not when you're murdering innocent people.
You asked me once where safety lies for any of us.
Remember the answer I gave you?
Take him away.
Cowards, do something.
Cumberland is no man of God. He's a murderer.
Kill him, torture him.
Yes, he's the Devil.
He kills innocent women after raping them.
The castle gate is protected by just a few soldiers.
They can't do anything. Let's fight them.
Let's break the doors open and fight and set the prisoners free.
He's a murderer. Let's free the prisoners he's been torturing.
He is the Devil. Kill him, torture him.
He's a murderer, a murderer!
He is the Devil. Torture him.
I'm as patient as you are.
- My Lord. - What is it?
You're disturbing me. I'm trying to pray. Leave me alone.
My Lord, the townspeople, they're planning to storm the castle.
We must prepare for a siege.
We must prepare my coach, you fool. Go! Wait...
You'll ride with all your men into town.
Kill every man, woman and child who dares to stand against me.
I have very few men.
You'll have even fewer by the end of the day. Go!
And trust in the Lord.
And the Lord asks us to arm and protect ourselves against all evil.
Pray, my son, and God will have mercy on your soul.
Halt! Halt!
I order you to halt.
- Kill him! - Out of the way!
Throw him over!
Kiss the cross.
Prisoner No.1 is accused of being possessed by the Devil
and having spoken to the dead.
The prisoner has been sentenced
to have his head cut off according to the law of the land.
It has been decreed that his earthly possessions
be delivered to the Church until disposed of by the Lord Bishop.
The Prisoner No.2 is also to be beheaded by the executioner.
- Come on! -You're free! Come on!
- Come on, let's go. - Come on!
Come on! Come on!
Let's get that devil.
Christopher! Angelina! Where are you?
Angelina! Christopher! - Mummy!
Mummy, I'm so glad to see you. Where were you?
Mummy!
Bastard! Bastard!
There he is!
Kill him!
Kill him!
Kill him! Kill him!
Let me through!
No! No!
Christian!
Christian!
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