She was said to have supernatural powers. And people believed her even when she took everything from them – really everything
“Maria sat next to me in the car and looked at me, but not through her eyes. It was someone else looking at me. She drove but only looked at me and talked to me. I asked her: Who are you? Then this person said through Mary: Dear God.”
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If Harald Wucherer hadn’t switched so quickly back then, maybe she would have gotten away with everything: the talk about the end of the world and the “purification” by fire, the lies and fraud and everything that came after that. If the usurer hadn’t answered the phone at the time, if he hadn’t put two and two together, maybe a lot worse would have happened.
Perhaps the three women they call “the witches of Villach” in Carinthia and throughout Austria would still be gliding through the village streets in their cars, looking for someone who is lonely, to whom they first promise everything and then everything take.