The Copenhagen witch trials of 1590 was the first major witch trial in Denmark. It resulted in the execution of seventeen people by burning. It was closely...

shown a great interest in witch trials since the Copenhagen witch trials in 1589, which had inspired the North Berwick witch trials in Scotland in 1590. When...

The North Berwick witch trials were the trials in 1590 of a number of people from East Lothian, Scotland, accused of witchcraft in the St Andrew's Auld...

Koldings; died 1590) was an alleged Danish witch. She was a main defendant in the Copenhagen witch trials held during the summer of 1590, which were held...

documented witch trial in history in view of the executions. They formed one of the four largest witch trials in Germany alongside the Fulda witch trials, the...

The Witch trials in Iceland were conducted by the Danish authorities (Iceland then being a Danish possession), who introduced the belief in witchcraft...

until 1686. The Danish witch trials are not well documented. With some exceptions, such as the famous Copenhagen witch trial (1589) and the Køge Huskors...

this period, and the witch trials were conducted by instructions from Copenhagen. The authorities and the clergy conducted the trials using demonology handbooks...

the North Berwick witch trials from 1590. Following the execution of an alleged sorcerer in the year 1591, the news of the trials was narrated in a news...

Kirkjuból witch trial was a witch trial that took place in Kirkjuból in 1656, in what is today Ísafjörður, in Iceland. It is the most famous witch trial in Iceland...

was beset by storms. In the following months a witch hunt began in Denmark, the Copenhagen witch trials, started by the Danish admiral Peder Munk. One...

Witch trials and witch related accusations were at a high during the early modern period in Britain, a time that spanned from the beginning of the 16th...

The Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597 was a series of nationwide witch trials that took place in the whole of Scotland from March to October 1597. At least...

July 1590 a number of so-called witches had been arrested in the Copenhagen witch trials in Denmark, including Anna Koldings, for causing the storms. One...

centre of the Paisley witches trials, were in circulation at the time. Patrick Cowper, the local minister who was intolerant of witches, had read the pamphlets...

the mishaps on the wife of a high official in Copenhagen whom he had insulted. The Copenhagen witch trials were held in Denmark in July 1590. One of the...

was a North Sami noaidi, who was the last victim of the many Vardø witch trials, which took place between 1621 and 1692. In Sámi form his name was Poala-Ánde...

"bruted for a witch or (as the commone people calls it) being with the fayryes". In common with other European witch trials, major Scottish witch hunts occurred...

carrying Anne of Denmark to Scotland. The events of the voyage led to witch trials and executions in Denmark and Scotland. Peder Munk was the son of Ludvig...

examining a witch The difficulties in discovering a witch and the causes of those difficulties The political reasons for executing witches How trials of bad...

sorcery and resulted in witch trials in Denmark. In 1566, several Danish ships sunk in a storm outside Gotland; women in Copenhagen were blamed for causing...

sorcerer. The bailiff Magnus Björnsson had been educated in Copenhagen where he read about witch persecutions from an event in 1487. He had brought this book...

April 1590) was an alleged Norwegian witch. Her case was one of the most documented of the many witchcraft trials in Norway in the 16th and 17th centuries...

of Denmark as they returned from Copenhagen, having been married in Oslo. He along with several other purported witches were arrested, examined and put...

including Anna Koldings, were accused and executed during the Copenhagen witch trials. His powerful position led to his downfall. In 1590 he had to vacate...

Johanne Thomes is accused of witchcraft as part of the Køge Huskors witch trials. 11 November – August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck...

the events the necklace was witness for in the past. They see an accused witch named Jeanne Dibasson being tortured and burned at the stake. Next they...

a noble without trial. She refused to accept the king's initial terms for her release. The king accused her of having hired a witch, Lamme Heine, to...

town of Køge, starting what will eventually turn into the Køge Huskors witch trial. The privy Council and representatives of the Estates support the King...

on Christianshavn in Copenhagen is inaugurated. Full date missing The Thisted witch trial, referred to as the last witch trials in Denmark, begins in...