When she was 31, Göldi was impregnated by a mercenary, who left Switzerland before Göldi gave birth. Göldi's baby died the night it was born (something not uncommon due to the high infant mortality of the era). Under the accusation of murder of her own child, she was pilloried and sentenced to six years of house arrest.
Soon after she gave birth to her first child, the baby died. She was brought to the town square and placed in a stockade as a form of public shame, after which she was sentenced to house arrest for 6 years.
At this time, Johann Jakob Tschudi was a well-respected physician, judge and naturalist in Glarus. He had power, wealth and a good reputation. The accusations Tschudi, his wife and their five children made against Göldi would result in her death only two years later.
Belief reigned in the town that only the person who had poisoned Annamaria could cure her. Göldi was dragged into the presence of the sick child and ordered to cure her under the threat of torture.
Miraculously, the child began to get better which would prove to be unfortunate for Göldi who was thus suspected of possessing benign powers. The child’s recovery sealed her own fate.
One of the prevailing and most tragic theories is that the illustrious Jakob Tschudi had an affair with Göldi and the whole debacle was concocted to save his family from public shame.
The Case of the Last Condemned Witch – Anna Göldi | ... On June 13th 1782, the maidservant Anna Göldi from the tiny Swiss canton Glarus was executed by the sword as being one of the very last women in Europe condemned for witchcraft. Concerning her case also for the very first time the term ‘judicial murder’ has been coined.
On June 13th 1782, the maidservant Anna Göldi from the tiny Swiss canton Glarus was executed by the sword as being one of the very last women in Europe condemned for witchcraft. Concerning her case also for the very first time the term ‘judicial murder’ has been coined.
她後來逃走了，到一戶人家當女僕，跟主子生了私生子，孩子被送走了，沒有人知道他後來的命運。
安妮後來替有錢有勢的醫生兼法官楚帝工作，楚帝家的孩子在牛奶跟麵包裡面找到針，被懷疑是安妮放在裡面的，所以安妮又逃走了。但楚帝家的小女兒，安娜瑪麗亞卻突然生了重病，於是安妮被指控利用巫術謀害楚帝一家，她被拖回來，在女孩面前刑求，要她治癒那個女孩。
女孩病情奇蹟好轉，於是安妮繼續被刑求，最後被迫承認她跟魔鬼交易，然後被劍處死。
這是歐洲被處死的最後一個女巫的故事。
民間謠傳，有權有勢的楚帝先生，是因為跟女僕安妮有不正當的關係，才趕快弄死她。