Once, when Werner Herzog was a toddler growing up in the Bavarian Alps in the last days of World War II, he was attacked by a witch: “On my right hand, I had a mark where the witch had bitten me.” I’m not sure that he believes this story—but I’m intrigued that he doesn’t see the need to question it.
And that’s just twenty pages into his extraordinary mem…
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