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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 biggest witch trials in Norway. It was the peak of the witch hunt which had ...
Vyacheslav Molotov, 1945. The name "Molotov cocktail" (Finnish: Molotovin cocktail) was coined by the Finns during the Winter War in 1939.[10] [11] [12] The name was a pejorative reference to Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who was one of the architects of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact on the eve of World War II.
Death by torture or in prison was common. [1] The method of execution was often burning alive at the stake. The majority of those accused in Norway were either poor, vagabonds, beggars and other marginalized people; or cunning folk, normally people long rumoured to perform sorcery, and 80% were women, normally a married woman or a widow. [1]
[a] [1] The last executions of people convicted as witches in Europe took place in the 18th century. In other regions, like Africa and Asia , contemporary witch-hunts have been reported from sub-Saharan Africa and Papua New Guinea , and official legislation against witchcraft is still found in Saudi Arabia , Cameroon and South Africa today.
Hernando Alonso (c. 1460 – 17 October 1528 [1]) was a Spanish conquistador. He is believed to be the first Jew to come to the New World, and was the first person in the New World to be burned at the stake.
Wartales is a tactical role-playing game developed by Shiro Games and published for Windows, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox Series X/S by Shiro Unlimited in 2023. Players manage a mercenary band as it attempts to survive in a low fantasy world that is trying to recover from a plague.
Archaeologist Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir attests that drowning was the fate for women convicted of infanticide, while incestuous couples were beheaded, murderers were beheaded, thieves were hanged, and those found guilty of witchcraft were burned at the stake. [5] Executed individuals were denied the privilege of burial in church cemeteries. [5]
Issobell Young (c.1565 - February 1629) was a wife of a tenant farmer residing in the village of East Barns in the parish of Dunbar, Lothian, Scotland. [1] She was tried, strangled, and burned at the stake at Castle Hill , Edinburgh for practising witchcraft .