fehme

Updated: June 15, 2025

I spend a great deal of time up there not always, to be sure, in sentimental contemplation of nature; it is my usual evening watchpost, from which I shoot the stags and roes out of the Justice's corn. They call the place the "Freemen's Tribunal." Presumably, in days of yore, the Fehme used to hatch out its sentences there in the darkness of the night.

Various - The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes

And for the first time I thought almost well of the honorable office to which I had been born. "And what do you here, son of the Red Axe, in the place of the Sacred Fehme of the White Wolf?" The question was the first addressed directly to me. "I came," said I, as straightforwardly and simply as I could, "with Michael Texel, because he asked me to come.

S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett - Red Axe