The Torsåker witch trials took place in 1675 in Torsåker parish in Sweden and were the largest witch trials in Swedish history. In a single day 71 people...
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Torsåker can refer to: Torsåker, Hofors, Sweden Torsåker Parish, Diocese of Härnösand, Kramfors Municipality, Sweden, where the Torsåker witch trials of...
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Torsåker parish may refer to: Torsåker Parish, Diocese of Härnösand, parish in Diocese of Härnösand Torsåker Parish, Diocese of Strängnäs, former parish...
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Torsåker parish (Swedish: Torsåkers församling) is in the Diocese of Härnösand in what is now Kramfors Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden....
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parish for the Archdiocese of Uppsala. The church at Torsåker has two runestones, Gs 7 and Gs 8. Torsåker has the Norse pagan god Thor as an element along...
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Care Party (Sjukvårdspartiet) People's Home in Hofors-Torsåker [sv] (Folkhemmet i Hofors-Torsåker; Hofors) Citizens' Coalition* (Medborgerlig samling,...
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of Sweden. He was the parish vicar of Torsåker and Ytterlännäs, Sweden, and known for his role during the Torsåker witch trials. He was born as Lars Christoffersson...
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Leicester boy (section Torsåker Witch Trials)
was tried and found guilty in 1633–1634, and imprisoned until death. The Torsåker witch trials in Sweden were intense, and children were actively used to...
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283. The first municipality with the name of Hofors was broken away from Torsåker in 1925. In 1971 the two entities were reunited to form the present municipality...
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trials in Germany, the North Berwick witch trials in Scotland, and the Torsåker witch trials in Sweden. There were also witch-hunts during the 17th century...
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Lutheran divine Laurentius Christophori Hornæus, minister and witch hunter in Torsåker and Ytterlännäs, Sweden In other fields: Henrik Laurentius Helliesen, Norwegian...
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Pennsylvania; acquitted by William Penn after trial in Philadelphia in 1683) Torsåker witch trials (in Sweden) Ramsele witch trial (in Sweden) North Berwick...
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Roermond witch trial Salem witch trials Spa witch trial St Osyth Witches Torsåker witch trials Trier witch trials Vardø witch trials as part of the Christianization...
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Anders Eklund Born (1965-08-06) 6 August 1965 (age 59) Torsåker, Sweden Occupation Truck driver Criminal status Incarcerated Motive Sexual Conviction(s)...
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September 1919 – 5 January 1963) was a Swedish film actor. He was born in Torsåker, Sweden and died in a plane crash in Trinidad and Tobago in 1963. Live...
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Torshälla huvud Eskilstuna Municipality 492 138.74 342.8 354.62 918.5 0882 Torsåker Hofors Municipality 899 121.74 300.8 738.46 1,912.6 7332 Torsång Borlänge...
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17th century, among them being the Salzburg witch trials, the Swedish Torsåker witch trials and, in 1692, the Salem witch trials in Colonial New England...
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Murders 9 October 2023 502 The Highgate Vampire 12 October 2023 503 The Torsåker Witch Trials 16 October 2023 504 The Sauchie Poltergeist aka Wee Hughie...
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Church of Sweden Israel Israelsson Näslund III (1796–1858), pastor at Torsåker Ingrid Persson (1912–2000), one of the first three women to be ordained...
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(1662–63) Kastelholm witch trials (1665–1668) Mora witch trial (1669) Torsåker witch trials (1675) Katarina witch trials (1676) Rugård witch trials (1685–86)...
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Joel Ingemar Berglund, born 4 June 1903 in Torsåker, Archdiocese of Uppsala in Gästrikland, Sweden, died 21 January 1985 in Stockholm, was a Swedish opera...
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and Gästrikland. In the Torsåker witch trials in Ångermanland, 71 people; of which 65 women (every fifth woman in Torsåkers parish), 2 men and 4 boys...
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before leaving the navy in 1859. Petre owned the blast furnace in Hofors in Torsåker Parish, Uppsala. He was a member of the bourgeoisie estate in the 1865–1866...
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Haapasaari, Botkyrkavägen, Grangärdesgatan in the 1930s and Husby-Rekarne and Torsåker during the 1940s. Österlund also was a model builder; he constructed a...
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first film playing an unbilled cameo as himself. Elov Persson died in Torsåker, one day before his 76th birthday. In subsequent years, his son Gunnar...
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minister of Sweden, aged 41 when he took office. Rickard Sandler was born in Torsåker parish (now Kramfors Municipality), Västernorrland County. His father Johan...
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was "held under inauspicious stars". October 15 – The Torsåker witch trials begin in the Torsåker Parish in Sweden, with over 100 men and women accused...
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France 1928, 1930, 1932, 1950 (id=3700) Torsten Thunberg June 30, 1873 Torsåker, Sweden December 4, 1952 Lund, Sweden 1928, 1929, 1932, 1937, 1938, 1939...
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the east in Garðar (Russia). This runestone was located at the estate of Torsåker but it has disappeared. It was presumably in style Pr3 and made by the...
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witch trials in Sweden, including the Torsåker witch trials, in which 71 people were decapitated and burned in Torsåker Parish, Diocese of Härnösand, in 1675...
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