Swiss witch

It’s never too late to say, “I’m sorry.”

Take the Swiss state of Glarus. It’s in the east-central part of that country, kinda like our Tennessee — but with less moonshine and more yodeling. (Though if you drink enough moonshine, you will start to yodel.)

Anyhow, the powers-that-be in Glarus have exonerated Anna Goeldi.

And who is this Swiss Miss, you ask?

Well, she was a maidservant beheaded in 1782 for witchcraft. And not just your average riding-a-broom witchcraft. Anna supposedly caused a girl to spit pins, sort of an early version of a Black & Decker nail gun.

And like they say on the game shows, “Wait! There’s more!”

Anna also had an affair with her boss, one Johann Jakob Tschudi, a doctor and magistrate. Maybe he wanted to avoid being exposed, so to speak, so he got rid of the evidence.

At any rate, Anna was the last of thousands of “witches” executed in Europe between the 14th and 18th centuries. That makes her sort of famous. Her hometown of Mollis even has a museum in her honor.

That’s nice. If I ever visit Mollis, I will check it out.

But I gotta wonder, “Isn’t there anything else going on in Mollis? Maybe an exhibit of cheeses or a chocolate factory?”

Guess not.