THE CURSE OF SIDONIA is the shocking true story of SIDONIA VON BORK, a 17th Century femme fatale who allegedly brought down Pomerania’s powerful family. One of the beauties of her age, the young Sidonia was betrothed to the Griffin’s Duke Phillip only to be jilted at the last minute as his family opted for a more ‘politically advantageous’ marriage to a German aristocrat. From then on the Griffin family were increasingly dogged with bad luck, tragic deaths and childhood mortality. Pomerania had avoided the witch hunts that had previously swept Europe yet despite this - and despite Sidonia being both clever and popular - she was repeatedly accused of ‘sorcery’ as well as being blamed for the Griffin tragedies. Her travels across Pomerania, in what is now Poland, thus ended abruptly when she was arrested and tried for murder, witchcraft and ‘sexual contact with the devil…’