In Dawn of the Golden Witch, Lambdadelta explains that Bernkastel earned the title Witch of Miracles after being left in a torturous Logic Error created by an unnamed game master (later revealed to be Featherine), and compared Bernkastel's escape to the Infinite Monkey Theorem stepping on a keyboard for centuries until she typed the word "Miracle", thus correcting the error, and earning the title "The Witch of Miracles".Ī character who is presumably a younger Bernkastel appears to Miyo Takano and rewrites her history, preventing her parents being killed, which leads disastrous results for Hinamizawa decades later. Rika denounced the Bernkastel side of her persona during Saikoroshi-hen, but Bernkastel presumably continued to exist on a higher plane of existence. In the manga adaptation of Minagoroshi-hen of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, she takes on the exact same appearance as Rika Furude, the only difference is that she has emotionless eyes.īernkastel's origins are largely ambiguous, but it is believed that she was once Rika Furude, and manifested from the despair that she suffered during the events of Higurashi. In the original visual novel, she is depicted as an individual around her teens, whereas in the remakes, she is depicted as a child, almost half Ronove's height.
Her weapon is a long black scythe, which separates miracles from reality. She seems to have a cat tail with a blue ribbon tied on it.
She wears a black and white Gothic Lolita dress with a blue ribbon. It should also be noted that she has medium sized breasts in the visual novel, whereas they appear to be flat in the anime.
Bernkastel has long steel-blue hair and emotionless purple eyes.