The Witch lore 350 years ago is almost as crazy as some of the modern day religious nonsense that makes teleevangelists rich, and their followers poor. Today, 1st of June 2025, marks the 350 years since 71 (innocent!!!) Swedes were executed as witches at what is called "Haxberget" (i.e. the "Witch Mountain"): 4 boys, 2 men and 65 women. It should be noted that these 65 executed women were every 5th woman in the so-called Torsåkers Parish. What a waste of human lives and all in all there were c. 400 such witch executions in Sweden!
One of the many very interesting details of these witch trials and witch executions is that many of the so-called "witches" were accused by children who claimed that they, for instance, had taken them to meet and/or worship Satan. I take it that it can't have been all that easy to be a poor, uneducated child, living in a bigoted countryside, riddled with poverty and superstition, but still, accusing someone for wild and crazy acts with "Satan" looks more than insane to me. As it is, many/most of these children were also executed, which they must have known most likely would happen: "Playing with fire, may lead to the pyre" - Yup, that's for sure ....".
Many other European countries had more witch trials than Sweden, but it was intense while it lasted. The worst cases were from the time period 1668-1676, and the last one was 1704 which to me looks rather late.
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