About the ol-german poem "by" Hans Vitler 'flowers of virtue" - that was a translation of an Italian original form 1320* Hans Vitler's famous translation was rather "free", but I guess he would not have added a penis-theft. - Now I found one commented reprint of "Blumen der Tugend" , well actually "Pluemen der Tugent" - it is oooold: https://archive.org/details/diepluemendertu00maxigoog/page/n381/mode/1up no such story there, it seems Vitler considered believe in witchcraft even: sinful superstition. Witch-hunt was NOT a middle-age thing, but came big in (early) modern times. Prof. Marvin Harris has some theories as for "why then": Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (tl;dr: both big churches THEN felt the need to proof they were "indispensable" - before: the one church just obviously was. Witch-hunts: ON.)
Hello again, I believe that ol' thread was "solved". (We got to the right verses - which were rather short - 'witches stealing phalli from breaches' end-of-story - in a context of the German author giving a long list of believes in witch-craft he considers silly (and were not in the Italian original ) - I assume you got here again via today's link in the new post about Aella and women with PMS being more superstitious or sth..
About the ol-german poem "by" Hans Vitler 'flowers of virtue" - that was a translation of an Italian original form 1320* Hans Vitler's famous translation was rather "free", but I guess he would not have added a penis-theft. - Now I found one commented reprint of "Blumen der Tugend" , well actually "Pluemen der Tugent" - it is oooold: https://archive.org/details/diepluemendertu00maxigoog/page/n381/mode/1up no such story there, it seems Vitler considered believe in witchcraft even: sinful superstition. Witch-hunt was NOT a middle-age thing, but came big in (early) modern times. Prof. Marvin Harris has some theories as for "why then": Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (tl;dr: both big churches THEN felt the need to proof they were "indispensable" - before: the one church just obviously was. Witch-hunts: ON.)
* seems one can find here - it translated automatically(?) on my chrome at least (into a strange kind of modern German) : https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Fiore_di_virt%C3%B9/I
tl;dr: speed reading it; i saw no witch or penis-theft, though the beginning of the text starts rather misogynistic
As I commented above, have a look at verses 7974 ff.
Hello again, I believe that ol' thread was "solved". (We got to the right verses - which were rather short - 'witches stealing phalli from breaches' end-of-story - in a context of the German author giving a long list of believes in witch-craft he considers silly (and were not in the Italian original ) - I assume you got here again via today's link in the new post about Aella and women with PMS being more superstitious or sth..