Katarzyna Paprocka (born in Chełmno, died in 1638 in Bydgoszcz) was a Polish victim of a conspiracy based upon accusations of witchcraft.
Katarzyna Paprocka then sold a house she built together with Zawerciński to a master tailor Tomasz Koles, who was to repay her in a few installments.
On 15 March 1638, Koles accused Paprocka of witchcraft - because of her magic she was supposed to kill her second husband and force Paprocki to marry her.
The judge at the trial was mayor Wojciech Łochowski, and the public prosecutor was Joachim Byszewski, an accomplice of Tomasz Koles.
Her legal defender presented witnesses, who heard Koles, who was bragging in a tavern about his willingness to prepare "evidence" against Katarzyna Paprocka.
The accusation was shown to be untrue - in 1670 the court sentenced the author of the libel, a baked Jan Frowerek, and he had to pay the fine.
[8] The story of Katarzyna Paprocka was shown in a literary form in a book Czarownice z Pomorza i Kujaw (pol.
According to the short story, the first husband of the woman was Daniel Nosowski ,[9] and the court documents, which were transported to Warsaw, caused a great strife.