Word: minnen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maria Deckx (rhymes with hex) explained to a local judge two weeks ago: "I have always been nice to Mrs. Minnen, but I didn't want a lot of birds around my house. Your honor, what would you, as a judge, do with a bunch of sparrows?" Judge Albert Boone solemnly turned to his two colleagues on the bench and put the question to them, but they could only shrug their shoulders in answer...
...Shoe Fits. Maria and her brother-in-law Victor Deckx were in court to answer Martha Minnen's charges that they had slandered her, but Maria refused to be intimidated. "I believed in witches," she declared to one & all, "and I still believe in witches. If the shoe fits...
...Victor Deckx, he had listened politely enough when a white-robed monk came to the church recently to preach a mission against the ungodly superstitions present in Witgoor; but when it came time to pass the plate, Victor had pointedly ignored Martha Minnen's outstretched offering. Soon afterward Martha's children came home from school complaining that no one would play with a witch's kids. That was when Martha decided...
...asked the court. "Well," said Emma, "one day Maria had to feed her pigs and the 'witch' came near the pigs' fodder, so Maria threw the fodder into the toilet. Then the witch gave the sparrows to the children." "I deny everything, everything, everything," said Martha Minnen...
Last week, after a week's thought, Turnhout's judges decided Martha Minnen was no witch. They awarded her, not the $200 damages she had demanded...