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Woodcut showing punishments for witches from Tengler's Laienspiegel, 1510, LXXXIII reverse (page 182 in the pdf).

There is no witch on it. The Holzstich shows normal punishments in medievel times. For example on the right side you see how somebody get his hand cut of by a Scharfrichter, that was a normal punishmant for robbers.

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