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N a fertile district of Silesia, situated at the foot of the Ogre mountains, a party of relations were collected together, a short time before the peace of Westphalia, for the purpose of dividing the property of a wealthy farmer, who had died without children, and whose large estates lay scattered about in the neighbouring country. In furtherance of this object, the several claimants were assembled in the principal inn of the village, and the adjustment of their respective shares would soon have been brought to a conclusion, but for a small estate, which common report had endowed with singular qualities, and which was called the “Field of Terror.”

It lay amid the surrounding fields, covered Rh