Witch trials in Latvia and Estonia were mainly conducted by the Baltic German elite of clergy, nobility and burghers against the indigenous peasantry...

Witchcraft Act in the 17th century, and then stopped the persecutions. Similar to the case of Witch trials in Latvia and Estonia, the witch trials were introduced...

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encouraged witch trials as a method to ensure religious conformity.[citation needed] In this, it was similar to the Witch trials in Latvia and Estonia. The...

Werewolf witch trials were witch trials combined with werewolf trials. Belief in werewolves developed parallel to the belief in European witches, in the course...

Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and...

Suspected witches were often prosecuted and punished, if found guilty or simply believed to be guilty. European witch-hunts and witch trials in the early...

classification of demons. In writing the book, King James was heavily influenced by his personal involvement in the North Berwick witch trials from 1590. Following...

calling Riga as Rie, as pronounced in Old Latvian. This is further supported by the fact that Riga is called Riia in Estonian (a language closely related to...

ongoing trial after being charged with treason. His eventual vote share was considered by some to help measure pro-Kremlin attitudes in Estonia. In March...

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...

concentration camp. In the Estonian war crimes trials of 1961 and 1962, several collaborators were sentenced for participation in the Estonian holocaust. Many...

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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...

could be found in Livonia (modern Latvia and Estonia), and that because of this geographic spread "it may not be too daring to suggest that in antiquity these...

The history or legend of the witches of Benevento is folklore dating from at least the 13th century, and one reason for the fame of Benevento, an ancient...

Teutonic Knights (2): The Stone Castles of Latvia and Estonia 1185–1560. Osprey Publishing. 2004. Murray, A. Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier, 1150–1500...

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...

The Bute witches were six Scottish women accused of witchcraft and interrogated in the parish of Rothesay on Bute during the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of...

Drachmann. Atop each bonfire often an effigy of a witch is placed (harking back to the days of witch trials, when real women were burned at the stake). Traditionally...

explored and brought into a modern context". Identifying as a witch also enables Wiccans to link themselves with those persecuted in the witch trials of the...

1973) is an Estonian academic and writer. Friedenthal was born in Viljandi. Friedenthal graduated from high school in Tartu in 1992 and studied theology...

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

malevolent witches (malandanti) in order to ensure good crops for the season to come. Between 1575 and 1675, in the midst of the Early Modern witch trials, a...

"Suri näitleja Evald Aavik" (in Estonian). Eesti Rahvusringhääling. Retrieved 16 June 2024. "Remembering John Charles and his music". Radio New Zealand...

Konrāds Kalējs (26 June 1913 – 8 November 2001) was a Latvian soldier who was a Nazi collaborator and an alleged war criminal during World War II. He gained...

Castle began in the 1380s. In 1505 it was captured by the Danish naval officer Soren Norby. In 1665 and 1668 the Kastelholm witch trials took place. The...

resulting in condemnations from the Estonian Air Force's commander, Jaak Tarien, and the U.S. embassy's chargé d'affaires. Some Estonians, particularly...

began holding trials for genocide in 1997. Latvia and Estonia followed in 1998. Latvia has since convicted four security officers and in 2003 it sentenced...

Rusiei în Ucraina". Știri pe surse (in Romanian). "Biķernieki Holocaust memorial vandalism under investigation". Public Broadcasting of Latvia. 23 February...