This document discusses various supernatural topics including witches, nightmares, ghosts, and burnings. It provides historical context for witch trials in Poland in the 16th-17th centuries where many women were burned at the stake for witchcraft. Nightmares are described as half-demons that feed on human blood at night. Stories are also shared about ghost sightings at an old school building and a black dog with chains seen haunting a Polish castle late at night.

1. Witches, nightmares
and ghosts

2. Witches
Witch is a
woman who
deals with
black magic
and we
associate her
with unclean
forces, Satan.
Witches often
cast a spell on
the other
people.

3.  XVI century is a Polish age processes of witchcraft. In
Wielkopolska and neighbourhood piles of burned in
Rydzyn, Zbąszyn, Poznań and Tomyśl. In Zbąszyn’s
acts preserved for example. description that outlines
the process of witchcraft: in 1681 there was meeting of
the court during which several persons, like Krystyna
Flanderce from the Old Dark Kramnica and Jadwiga
Pierszyna accused of participation in the witches'
Sabbath on Bald Mountain, as well as a "nation that
helped a lot of damage in cattle and horses and using
their spells do grasshoppers live in clover"

4. Burning at the stake
Burning at the stake is death brought about
by combustion. As a form of capital
punishment, burning has a long history as
a method in crimes such as treason,
heresy, and witchcraft..
In the seventeenth century in the Duchy
of Nysa in Jesenik, Nysa and other
places in the years 1651-1652 were
burnt at the stake of about 250 female
example of this was Trina Papisten.
Trina Papisten residents of Slupsk, Slupsk last
witch convicted of witchcraft in 1701 and
burned at the stake in Slupsk at the Witches
Tower, after many days of torture. She
herbalist accused her of witchcraft because
her herbal mixes sold better than drugs at the
local pharmacy.

5. Nightmares
Nightmare is half demon, the soul
of man living or dead, who tired of
sleeping at night, sucking their
blood.
A man tormented by a
nightmare groans, sweats and
throws herself on the bed. If,
therefore, Slav woke up in the
morning with the feeling that
something was up all night
poking him in the chest, often
blamed for it is the bane. This
myth probably has its origin in
the phenomenon of sleep
paralysis.

6. Ghosts in Poland
 Quite near Żarki is the place there was a
mysterious incident. Its witness was
headmaster one of the rural schools, who
returned home after hours. Going down the
stairs and headed toward the exit he had to
pass in the hallway with the spirit of the monk,
who looked very real. This scared man just ran.
Interestingly, near the place where the school is
now in the past there was a monastery, after
which there is no trace today.

7.  Old people say that at night the Ogrodzieniec Castle in
Podzamcze is haunted by a large black dog, which drags a 3-
meter-long clanging chain. This mysterious animal was seen
by fathers and grandfathers even before the World War I.
They kept saying that at night there was no horse, which
would cross the castle gate, although the outside yard smelt
of juicy, fresh grass. The black dog has been seen by too
many people, so it cannot be considered to be just a fantasy.
This strange creature has been appearing in the unchanged
form since at least several dozens of years. The explanation of
this mysterious phenomenon, which has been witnessed by
many inhabitants of Podzamcze, could be found in the
history of the Ogrodzieniec Castle.

8. The end
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