Black Soul (How Far Down the Path of Evil Can You Go?): Peter Niers

Peter Niers was one of the most infamous figures of the late medieval period-a German bandit, black magician, and serial killer whose crimes were so horrifying that they entered the realm of legend. His story is a chilling example of what happens when a soul gives itself over completely to evil. Like Tolkien’s Gollum, Niers became consumed by his own darkness, twisted by his desires until nothing remained of the man he once was. He practiced black magic, engaging in ritual infanticide and cannibalism, believing it granted him supernatural powers. His body may have been executed in a brutal public spectacle, but his soul was already lost long before-deformed by his sins, enslaved by the demonic forces he invoked. In the end, Niers stands as a terrifying cautionary tale of the gollumization of the soul: how unchecked evil corrupts not just the body but the very essence of a person, reducing them to something less than human.
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