Johannes Kepler’s Mother Charged with Witchcraft
Be careful who you give birth to
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3 min readJun 23, 2021
On the night of August 7, 1620, an elderly German woman was torn from her bed and thrust into a linen chest. Terrified and screaming, she was locked inside a small windowless room and charged with witchcraft. The evidence? She was the mother of Johannes Kepler, the controversial mathematician and scientist.
