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Easter witches in 2008 and 1958 A girl dressed up as an Easter witch. Easter witches (Swedish: påskkärring, ' easter hag ', [1] ' easter witch ', [1] Finland Swedish: påskhäxa, ' easter witch ', Finnish: trulli, ' trulli ') is an old Swedish legend about witches flying to Blockula (Swedish: Blåkulla, Blå Jungfrun) on brooms on the Thursday before Easter (Maundy Thursday, sv ...
A girl dressed up as an Easter witch. Blockula could only be reached by magical flight, wherein witches and the taken children would ride fence-posts, spits, beasts (such as horses or goats) or even the bodies of sleeping men; one example claims that when room was lacking a spit would be placed into the back-side of a goat, to increase the riding area.
Easter (påsk) is celebrated in Sweden. The belief in witches travelling to Blåkulla on Maundy Thursday (originally for a Sabbath with the Devil) is honoured by children dressing up as witches (påskkärring), knocking on the doors in the neighbourhood requesting treats (much like trick or treating during Halloween).
Witch trials in Sweden (1 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Witchcraft in Sweden" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Easter witch; G. Kerstin ...
In Sweden and Finland, traditions include egg painting and small children dressed as Easter witches (påskkärring [47] or in Finland påskhäxa, typically dressed as old folks) collecting candy door-to-door, in exchange for decorated hand-made greetings such as cards [48] or pussy willows, called virvonta in Finland, which is a result of the ...
In Sweden, children dress up as Easter witches, called Påskkärringar, and exchange handmade drawings or paintings for candies, similar to Halloween in the U.S. Johner Images.
Witch trials hardly occurred during Queen Christina's reign. In 1648 the high profiled case of Olof Månsson was commuted from a death sentence to a disciplinarian punishment. In the winter of 1649 the queen ordered the witch trial in the Swedish province of Bremen-Verden in Germany be stopped so it wouldn't develop into a mass trial. However ...
The Vardø witch trials (Heksejakten i Vardø), which took place in Vardø in Finnmark in Northern Norway in 1621, was the first major witch trial of Northern Norway and one of the biggest witch trials in Scandinavia. [1]