425:, had a growing concern over the rights of those accused and the testimonies used to condemn them, particularly as the testimonies were given by children who were merely asked to confirm their former statement rather than to repeat them. On 11 September 1676, one of the child witnesses admitted to have lied in court. This confession was followed by the complete breakdown of all the child witnesses before court, who admitted to having lied and who were instead charged with perjury. As a consequence, the Witchcraft Commission immediately order a stop of the witch hunt nationwide, and started to issue investigation in how the witch hysteria could be effectively stopped.
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191:, where sorcery was condemned by death, was personally in favor of being strict toward sorcery. In 1607, Charles IX condemned a woman to be burned after she was accused of sucking all the power and blood of her son through a magician. The magician was also prosecuted on orders from the king, but there are no known documents to prove how he was prosecuted. It is also the only known accusation of
129:(literally:"Twelve Men's Oath'). However, the trial did not take place until 1563, when Hansson's heirs brought it to the king's high council. The woman was then offered to go through the previously proposed oath, with the condition that if she could not, she would be sentenced as guilty, this meant she would be sentenced to pay fines "by Sweden's law".
505:, who visited the province of the witch trial, informed the authorities in the capital that a witch trial was taking place in the province, the central authorities immediately ordered the trial to be stopped, and the accused were freed and given monetary compensation for the torture they had been forced to endure.
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in Ă…ngermanland, 71 people; of which 65 women (every fifth woman in TorsĂĄkers parish), 2 men and 4 boys, were beheaded and then burned on the stake on June 1, 1675. According to some sources, 9 people were executed already on March 28 and the remaining 62 on June 1, 1675, on a mountain in the border
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The first wave of trials in Sweden, which occurred between the 1590s and 1610s (which was also the most intensive time period in Europe), stopped in the 1620s, and for the following forty years, death penalty for witchcraft was a rare sentence in Sweden. These first witch-trials were few compared to
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Stockholm, which also included descriptions of witchcraft of the kind it was by then becoming the modern one on the continent. However, the old Swedish sorcery law was not made to deal with witchcraft cases in the manner they were performed in the nearby Germany, and death sentences
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At the bottom, devils and witches. Above, women and children are being interrogated and are given testimony. A prisoner drives a flock of imprisoned witches and wizards. Around the bonfire where the convicted burn, witches are seen carrying children on brooms, goats and debris, while demons in animal
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Witchcraft Act. It replaced the old law, where sorcery was only punishable if combined with murder, and introduced the death penalty for all forms of sorcery, based on the Bible's writings: "Thou shalt not let a sorceress live." This law was the beginning of the
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resulted in several people sentenced guilty of witchcraft, but they were not executed. This witch trial was first handled by the local court. When the high court was made aware of it, they took control over it in order to stop it. They restricted themselves to sentence only those who had themselves
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were, from that point on, legal to use to make them confess (torture had been commonly used before but without legal permission). The commission was divided into two departments under the supervision of
Governor Carl Larsson Sparre, who preserved to right to confirm all sentences before they could
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Dalarna in 1668, where 17 people were sentenced to death for having abducted children to Satan. The children who were supposed victims and witnesses were punished as well (not for having witnessed, but of having been to Satan and participated in the Sabbath, albeit by being kidnapped) - in Mora,
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was reluctant to confirm death sentences for witchcraft reported to them by local courts after 1676. While witchcraft cases occasionally appeared in the late 17th and early 18th century, they were few and isolated, and guilty verdicts of local courts were normally commuted to lesser punishment or
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had admitted that they had traveled to BlĂĄkulla and used magic tricks to milk other cows and were sentenced to death according to the 1608 law. When the High Court, which gave the sentence for decapitation and later being burned at a bonfire, referred the case to
Christina, she approved the death
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Witchcraft Commission and the government ordered the clergy nationwide to stop all witch panic by conducting a prayer of gratitude in their pulpits, thanking God that the witches had now been banned forever from the Kingdom. When some of the clergymen protested and insisted that the
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of Satan of
Blockula, where they were exposed to sexual abuse and forced to sell their souls, caused widespread panic among the parents of the nation, and parents of several parishes, alarmed by the rumours among their children, started to demand that the authorities issue investigations in their
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Eventually, the witch panic spreading around the provinces and the growing number of local witch trials caused the government to form a central national
Witchcraft Commission in an attempt to take control of the situation. The rules of the Witchcraft Commission was issued by the king in 1673 and
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or idolatry, having worshipped a Pagan god. However, the
Christian church regarded Pagan gods to be demons and worshipping them to be Satanism, which enabled an execution by use of the still existing witchcraft act. While the witchcraft act was used to enable these executions, they were in fact
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the large hysteria that would come to be in the 1660s and 70s. In 1635 the parliament, whose task it was to confirm the death sentences handed down by the local courts, expressed a relief that there had been very few cases of witch trials reported to them for a period of several years past.
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The witch trial of Mora attracted attention and caused a hysteria in the country. The witch hunt of 1668-1676 was endemic to its nature: it spread as rumours by way of mouth from parish to parish rather than being confined to one place. The phenomena of witches abducting children to the
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and forced to confess. This trial was conducted by the local church by approval of the local governor. However, while formally legal, as the
Witchcraft Act had never been abolished, witch trials were in practice considered a defunct phenomena in Sweden by this point. When countess
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compared to other countries in Europe. In Sweden, about four hundred people were executed for witchcraft prior to the last case in 1704. Most of these cases (circa 280) occurred during a short but intense period; the eight years between 1668 and 1676, when the witch hysteria called
156:, intended to root out anything not in accordance with Protestant practices, resulted in a wave of about 140 witch trials, especially in Götaland; however, they did not result in the death penalty but rather to fines, pillorying, whippings and other disciplinarian punishments.
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of 1617. There were likely several more who were accused and convicted during the witch hunt of the 1610s, but the number of cases and executions are badly documented as most of the contemporary documentation has been lost. In 1619, two "witches" were imprisoned in
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witches had indeed been guilty and the sorcery real, they were lectured by the Witchcraft Commission and forced to comply. By that act, the great witch hunt known as the Great Noise of 1668-1676 was ended in Sweden and the Witchcraft Commission was dissolved.
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books of upper district law, most of whom did not result in a death penalty. Indeed, the most serious trial in Dalarna before 1668 is considered to be the case of HĂĄll Karin in 1663, which resulted in banishment from the area instead of death penalty.
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was also sentenced to death for killing cattle with magic. It is considered the last death sentence for witchcraft in Sweden before 1668. Prior to 1668, a little under a hundred executions for witchcraft are estimated to have occurred in Sweden.
311:(literally: "the Great Noise") resulted in almost three hundred executions (more than any period prior), during the eight years until 1676, when they were stopped. They took place mainly on Northern Sweden and in the former Danish province of
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1674. The 1673 regulation stated that only those accused who confessed willingly and who had played a leading role were legal to execute. The revised rules of 1674 stated that people could be executed even if they had not confessed, but that
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confessed. The court referred to them as fools, who confessed themselves guilty because of insane dreams influenced by stories about the Great Noise fifty years prior, and sentenced them to be whipped and banished from their parish.
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took place, in which the deadly outcome was likely affected by the new laws, as she had been accused but acquitted before. During the 1610s, the first real witch hunt in Sweden resulting in death sentences took place in the Duchy of
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The witch trials of the Katarina Parish in Stockholm were, however, to be the end of the whole Swedish witch hunt. During the proceedings in Stockholm, several members of the Witchcraft Commission, notably Eric Noraeus and
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reign. In 1648 the high profiled case of Olof MĂĄnsson was commuted from a death sentence to a disciplinarian punishment. In the winter of 1649 the queen ordered the witch trial in the Swedish province of
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could not be issued in these cases because the law did not allow for death penalty for consorting with the Devil, which illustrate the difficulty for authorities to deal with this new phenomenon.
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during 1631–1667, the vast majority received a mild punishment such as banishment or fines. 16 witchcraft trials (5 against men, 11 against women), were held in 1630–1671 according to
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in Germany be stopped so it wouldn't develop into a mass trial. However, while rare, the death penalty did occur in witchcraft trials during this time. In 1650, two old women from
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In 1611, a woman called Karin of Ă–ckleqvarna was subjected to the water test, by royal command, the result of her prosecution is however lost. The same year, the famous case of
48:("The Great Noise") took place, causing a large number of witch trials in the country. It is this infamous period of intensive witch hunt that is most well known and explored.
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in 1714 both ended in acquittals. In 1711 a Baron LĂĽtsow, and in 1718 the Uppsala student Daniel Salthenius were both sentenced to death for having made a
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example, out of the 14 people (3 men and 11 women) who were charged for sorcery (3 for witchcraft, 7 for harming humans or animals) in the province of
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parishes. In this way, witch trials spread from parish to parish, when more and more parents demanded that their children's stories be investigated.
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548:Tiderman-Ă–sterberg, Jennie (25 October 2021).
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1588:De Lamiis et Pythonicis Mulieribus
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175:. Notable cases were those with
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1110:Pappenheimer family witch trial
334:for having abducted her to the
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1572:Summis desiderantes affectibus
1365:Navarre witch trials (1525–26)
1264:Vardø witch trials (1651–1653)
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894:Northamptonshire witch trials
1707:accusations against children
1612:The Discoverie of Witchcraft
1059:Trial of the Wizards of Lyon
912:Bury St Edmunds witch trials
834:Channel Islands Witch Trials
32:The witch processes in Mora.
2156:Political history of Sweden
1029:Aix-en-Provence possessions
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1164:Witch trial of Fuersteneck
1024:Labourd witch-hunt of 1609
877:North Berwick witch trials
1668:A Guide to Grand-Jury Men
1353:Val Camonica witch trials
1333:Witch trials in Catalonia
1241:Vardø witch trials (1621)
984:Kasina Wielka witch trial
923:Alloa witch trials (1658)
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1548:Directorium Inquisitorum
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1506:Connecticut Witch Trials
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1338:Witch trials in Portugal
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1146:Baden-Baden witch trials
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159:In 1597, three women in
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1604:De praestigiis daemonum
1556:De maleficis mulieribus
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1281:Kastelholm witch trials
1217:Copenhagen witch trials
1196:Witch trials in Iceland
1191:Witch trials in Finland
1181:Witch trials in Denmark
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1092:Wiesensteig witch trial
974:Witch trials in Hungary
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1293:TorsĂĄker witch trials
1269:KirkjubĂłl witch trial
1246:Akershus witch trials
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1235:FinspĂĄng witch trial
1140:Bamberg witch trials
1041:Louviers possessions
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222:FinspĂĄng witch trial
143:Charles IX of Sweden
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1305:RugĂĄrd witch trials
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