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Finspång witch trial
The Finspång witch trial was a witch trial which took place in Finspång Östergötland in Sweden in 1617. Between seven and nine women died as a result. It has a special place in its country's history as one of the very few larger witch trials in Sweden outside of the period of 1668–1676, which was otherwise the time of the real witch hunt in this country, and also because it seems that the condemned was executed by burning, which was not the common way of execution for witch craft in Sweden. It was the biggest witch trial in Sweden before 1668, and resulted in the biggest execution for sorcery in Sweden outside of the 1668–76 witch hunt.
== Background ==
The Finspång witch trial was long treated as a legend, but it now confirmed to have occurred. The witch trial does not seem to have occurred from public hysteria, but rather, it was ordered from above. Ostrogothia was during the 1610s ruled as an independent Duchy by the king's cousin John, Duke of Ostrogothia, and his consort, Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden. The royal couple, especially the Princess, is considered to have been directly responsible as the instigators of the witch trial, together with their private chaplain, Claudius Prytz. Prytz had, as soon as he was installed, inspired the couple to the witch ideology by accusing a woman of having enchanted the Duke and Duchess, and as a result, the woman was burned at the stake; the legend says, that when she stood at the stake, she had grabbed the clothes of the Vicar Prytz and tried to drag him into the flames, but the executioner had pulled him loose. The case seems to have affected the duke and Duchess to a stern belief in witches; until then, witch trials had been uncommon in Ostrogothia, as they had been in all Sweden, and the laws made it hard to give a death sentence on the charges of sorcery and witch craft, but the Duke, who was allowed to issue laws in the duchy, changed this and issued new laws about sorcery which made it much easier to punish alleged sorcery by death.
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