Old Schuylkill tales; a history of interesting events, traditions and anecdotes of the early settlers of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania . seen them go. The belief ex-isted for a long time among the country folks that Huntsickerwas in league with the Devil and that he and the Prau had beenspirited away by the same spirits that they had conjured with just once too often. j i tj The Orwigsburg Postmaster, however, said that HerrHuntsicker had disappeared just after receiving a large official-looking envelope from Germany. The belief gained credenceafter a time that he was a political refugee and
Old Schuylkill tales; a history of interesting events, traditions and anecdotes of the early settlers of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania . seen them go. The belief ex-isted for a long time among the country folks that Huntsickerwas in league with the Devil and that he and the Prau had beenspirited away by the same spirits that they had conjured with just once too often. j i tj The Orwigsburg Postmaster, however, said that HerrHuntsicker had disappeared just after receiving a large official-looking envelope from Germany. The belief gained credenceafter a time that he was a political refugee and had been m dis-favor with the German government, but was finally shunned and feared all strangers and would remainin hiding for days at a time. He was doubtless a learned manand practised the experiments of chemistry and astrology, withmagnetism and the use of pyrotechnics, on the honest, butsimple country folks to mystify them and to keep them at a dis-tance; and perhaps the results of the use of his occult powersserved to while away the time of his enforced exile and contrib-uted to his own personal ©llj Scbuglfeill Cales. 67 Himtsieker and the lame negro were probably one, forneither was ever seen when the other was present. The necro-mancer possibly thought himself above being seen perform-ing menial labor. It might detract from his prestige as a ma-gician and it might be he had never performed it in the oldcountry. Thus Huntsickers powers might be explained awayin the light of the present day, but he was no mythical person-age, and many more stories of what he performed are still re-lated among the descendants of those who lived in West Bruns-wick township in the early days of Schuylkill County. UNWRITTEN HISTORY OF ORWIGSBURG The Court House was erected in 1815, the cost of the build-ing was $5,000; before it was built, a Court of Quarter Sessionswas held in the public house of Adam Eeiffsnyder (ArcadianHotel), on the third Monday of Dece
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