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8 identifiers linking Anna Laminit across the web's reference databases
19 statements · 16% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
8 identifiers linking Anna Laminit across the web's reference databases
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Anna Laminit was a German herbalist who posed as a "hunger saint". Her self-declared status as a saint who starves oneself, was accepted by some elite members of society, allowing her opportunity to gain considerable influence over powerful contemporaries, including members of the imperial family. She was exposed by a trap set at the behest of Archduchess Kunigunde, the younger sister of Emperor Maximilian I, to whom Laminit had claimed visions. Following exposure, Laminit was banished from the presence of the emperor and from Austria. She was later executed as a witch for a separate crime that had resulted in a death.