Friederike Hauffe

[1][2] Hauffe was born in Prevorst, a small village "In Wirtemberg, near the town of Löwenstein, on those mountains whose highest point, the Stocksberg, is raised 1879 feet above the level of the sea, surrounded on all sides by hill and valley, and in a romantic seclusion...`with] something more than 400 inhabitants, the greatest number of whom maintain themselves by woodcutting, coalburning, and collecting the productions of the forest".

However, psychical researcher Frank Podmore noted that the "evidence is in all cases inconclusive, and sometimes indicative of collusion with members of the Seeress's family.

He also wrote that Hauffe "unquestionably cooperated" with her sister and servant girl in producing fraudulent phenomena to deceive Kerner.

[6] Between November 17, 1933 and December 15, 1933, Carl Jung gave 5 lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) on Mrs. Hauffe's case, taken from a psychiatric and psychological perspective.

Jung also mentioned Kerner's observation of malnutrition, including scurvy, which was common in the early 19th Century in rural Germany.