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Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events

S. Baring-Gould

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. . .ed, visited him in prison when he was first arrested, and then Kaltofen had asserted that he had committed the murders entirely unassisted. On Jaspis remarking to him in April, 1820, that there were circumstances that rendered this eminently improbable, Kaltofen cut him short with the answer, "I was by myself." Afterwards, when he had changed his note, Jaspis reminded him of his previous declaration, but[61] Kaltofen pretended not to remember ever having made it.

Towards the end of his days, Kaltofen was profoundly agitated, and was very restless. When Jaspis gave him a book of prayers and meditations for such as were in trouble, he put it from him, and said the book was unsuitable, and was adapted only to the innocent. He had visitors who combined piety with inquisitiveness, and came to discuss with him the state of his soul. Kaltofen's vanity was inflamed, and he was delighted to pose before these zealots. When he heard that Jaspis had preached about him . . . Read More

Community Reviews

It was an OK book, but really just that and nothing more. The book is a collection of stories of religious extremists and the horrible deeds they performed in the name of religion. There were stories of cultists, sects of married Catholic priests, and a rather bloody reign of anabaptists in Muenster