The Cathars were one of the sectarian currents that emerged in Europe after the year 1000, and today they are both a well-known symbol of the bloody settlement of religious disputes and a beneficial tourist item in southern France.
There was literally a witches' orgy on the Peter's Stones under Praděd. There was eating, drinking, dancing and most of all partying. Dean Lautner crowned Maria Sattler from Šumperk and later Mrs. Meixner from Olomouc as witch queen. In addition, he baptized children in the name of Satan. He brought holy hosts to the St. Peter's Stones, and the participants in the witches' meetings trampled on them and danced. These were the words used by witnesses, mostly during torture, to describe one of the largest witchcraft cases in our territory, which occurred in the second half of the 17th century in Velké Losiny and Šumperk.
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