The famous German illustration of the Mora witch trial, 1670. In the illustration the condemned are executed by burning at the stake, which was a common execution method in witch trials in Germany, but did not in fact occur at the Mora witch trial.
The Mora witch trial, which took place in Mora, Sweden, in 1669, is the most internationally famous Swedish witch trial. Reports of the trial spread throughout Europe, and a provocative German illustration of the execution is considered to have had some influence on the Salem witch trials. It was the first mass execution during the great Swedish witch hunt of 1668–1676.
The Morawitchtrial, which took place in Mora, Sweden, in 1669, is the most internationally famous Swedish witchtrial. Reports of the trial spread throughout...
major part in the witch-hunts described in Joseph Glanvill's 1682 work Sadducismus Triumphatus, which detailed the Morawitchtrials in an Appendix entitled:...
Sweden was a country with few witchtrials compared to other countries in Europe. In Sweden, about four hundred people were executed for witchcraft prior...
the witness and accuser in the witchtrial against Märet Jonsdotter in 1668, the trial that unleashed the great witch hysteria in Sweden called Stora...
the North Berwick witchtrials from 1590. Following the execution of an alleged sorcerer in the year 1591, the news of the trials was narrated in a news...
on Lake Maracaibo. May 19 – The first people executed in Sweden's Morawitchtrial are put to death, with seven women and one man beheaded after being...
"bruted for a witch or (as the commone people calls it) being with the fayryes". In common with other European witchtrials, major Scottish witch hunts occurred...
this book and its reports, particularly the material relating to the Morawitchtrial of 1669. The book is cited by H. P. Lovecraft in his short story "The...
The Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597 was a series of nationwide witchtrials that took place in the whole of Scotland from March to October 1597. At least...
the end of not only the Katarina witchtrials but also the entire national Great noise witch hunt. The Morawitchtrials in 1668, where 17 people were sentenced...
centre of the Paisley witchestrials, were in circulation at the time. Patrick Cowper, the local minister who was intolerant of witches, had read the pamphlets...
on Lake Maracaibo. May 19 – The first people executed in Sweden's Morawitchtrial are put to death, with seven women and one man beheaded after being...
de Meath A confessed witch whose confession marked the beginning of the Morawitchtrial and eventually the Swedish witchtrials. Gertrude the Great 1256...
Daemonologie Pavlac, Brian (2009). Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the ... p. 60. Mora, George (November 1963). "On the...
rid of the attacker. During the Salem witchtrials several people reported night-attacks by various alleged witches, including Bridget Bishop, that may...
Sixteenth-Century Germany. Stanford University Press, 1998. George Mora, et al., Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance: Johann Weyer, "De praestigiis...
pursuit, team pursuit and road time trial), and Olympic gold in three (individual pursuit, team pursuit and road time trial). He is the only rider to have...
ocean, but she is saved at the last minute by Mora. In part five, she gets into a soul bond with Mora. She also finally manages to defeat her mother...
being a witch, Odval makes his move on taking over the kingdom. Derek goes to a sick Zøg for advice, who tells him to listen to his gut. At the trial, Luci...
Merlin, "The Dragon's Call", where she played Lady Helen of Mora and Mary Collins, a witch who impersonated her. Her performance in this role was described...
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