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134:. The authorities and the clergy conducted the trials using demonology handbooks and used interrogation techniques and sometimes torture. After a guilty verdict, the condemned was forced to expose accomplices and commonly deaths occurred due to torture or prison. Witch trials were in decline by the 1670s as judicial and investigative methods were improved. A Norwegian law from 1687 maintained the death penalty for witchcraft, and the last person to be sentenced guilty of witchcraft in Norway was 22: 1249: 194:
Between 1561 and 1760, about 860 people were put on trial for witchcraft in Norway, resulting in about 277 confirmed executions. However, these figures comes from the confirmed cases of which there are documentation and as such represent only a minority, as much documentation is known to be missing.
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An investigation could be instigated by the bailiff with reference to public safety after rumours of witchcraft had been heard from at least three different households. An accusation from a private citizen often came after a conflict, and was usually death or illness allegedly caused by witchcraft.
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to get a confession about a Devil's Pacts and a Witches' Sabbath. Torture prior to a confession was formally illegal in accordance with the Danish torture law of 1547, but was nevertheless commonly used. After a guilty verdict, the condemned was interrogated again, this time to expose accomplices.
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in 1695. Witch trials did occur in Norway during the 18th-century, but the authorities no longer issued the death penalty in such cases. Because of the lack in documentation, some of the witch trials in the 18th-century may theoretically have resulted in death sentences, such as the one against
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were the main definitions of a witch, but in general, the Norwegians did not include such things in their accusations, nor did the accused, who could admit to practicing folk magic voluntarily but did not associate this with Satan. The authorities interrogated the accused by interpreting their
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After the 1670s, witch trials became more and more uncommon in Norway. The reason was that the high courts started to investigate and prevent the legal mistakes often made by the local courts handling the witch trials, such as the use of torture prior to a guilty verdict, the use of condemned
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The Norwegian law of 1687 kept the death penalty for witchcraft, and the Witchcraft Act was in fact formally in place until 1842. The last confirmed execution for sorcery in Norway was the execution of
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The unconfirmed witch trials are estimated to be numbering at least 1,400, resulting in at least 350 executions. The most well documented areas are
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The authorities and the clergy managed the witch trials, using instructions from international demonology handbooks. The Devil's Pacts and
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in 1729. The last occasion when a person is confirmed to have been sentenced guilty of witchcraft in Norway was
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The majority of those accused in Norway were either poor, vagabonds, beggars and other marginalized people; or
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testimony so that it could fit in with the witch trial handbook's definition of what a witch was, and used
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during this period, and the witch trials were conducted by instructions from
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Death by torture or in prison was common. The method of execution was often
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Treatises on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants
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in 1715. The Witchcraft Act was formally in place until 1842.
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