I am reading ‘The Mercies’ by Kiran Millwood Hargrave and I generally keep on searching about the book while reading. I realised that it is based on true events and ‘Vardø witch trial’ took place in Norway around 1622. This is one of the biggest trial happened around that time where almost more than 25 women killed.
Sharing wiki link as well
The witch trials of Vardø were held in Vardø in Finnmark in Northern Norway in the winter of 1662–1663 and were one of the biggest in Scandinavia. Thirty women were put on trial, accused of sorcery and making pacts with the Devil. One was sentenced to a work house, two tortured to death, and eighteen were burned alive at the stake.
It was the third of the three big mass trials of Northern Norway, preceded by the Vardø witch trials (1621) and the Vardø witch trials (1651–1653), and one of the big...
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AIRAM
November 28, 2023, 11:53am
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Thank you for sharing! I didn’t know there were so many persecutions around the world!
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tracyS
November 29, 2023, 3:44pm
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You may enjoy this show, if you can get it outside UK.
It covers the witch trials and how it was also a systematic attack on women entering and remaining in the medical profession (episode 6)
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Thanks @tracyS for sharing this, I will listen this for sure
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