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Most countries had them to some degree I guess, since they were the ideal way of controlling and ultimately killing women who got in the way with the male way of control. The dreadful consequences of the bargain she has made only become apparent much later, although as her own sad history is revealed we learn a little more about her motivation. It sounds absurd, but it’s true — authorities were afraid of losing power, to the point they would persecute anyone who even remotely thought about challenging them. I originally bought this book in physical copy because I saw it by chance and was overwhelmed with a desire to purchase it.
They painted the Sami as a people of magicians, and disapproved of Norwegian women along the coast being alone at home for months when their husbands were out at sea fishing, suspecting them of committing adultery with demons. About 150 people were executed for sorcery in Northern Norway between 1621 and 1663, before legal security and administration became better organized in 1666. On June 23, 2011 Norway's Queen Sonja opened the Steilneset Memorial to the Victims of the Witch Trials in Vardø, a new monument by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor and the French-American artist Louise Bourgeois.There are also some elements of magical realism (involving Maren), and folk lore tales incorporated in the story. The nearby mountain Domen, where many of the accused witches were said to have met, is now home to a shelter to rest and enjoy the ocean view. The story of Kirsti Sørensdatter and Mari Jørgensdatter begins in this way, as presented in old legal documents from Finnmark.
The girls were highly susceptible to influence, and Anne Rhodius’s opinions and learned mind likely ingrained demonological beliefs in them.She was cut with burning iron and sulphur was put on her chest, but the only thing she said was, " I cannot lie on myself or on others. Alongside this is the first person narrative of Anna Rhodius, former mistress of the King of Denmark, who has been banished to Vardø for reasons she does not understand, much like the unnamed queen in J. This is a thought-provoking and beautifully told story, one that historical fiction fans won’t want to put down. It was the last major work of Bourgeois, who died at the age of 98 in New York just a few months before the memorial opened to the public. Only the Sámi community truly accepts her ways, a dangerous path to tread when all around her are people of such pious faith that should just one wrong word be uttered, her flame shall surely be extinguished from this world….
Some were isolated, focused on a single individual, while others were panics–consisting of successive trials over a short period of time. This book tells the story of three women and their fight for survival against the persecution of witchcraft.
Sölve Nilsdotter then said that Ingeborg was just as much a witch as the rest of them, that she had made a boat get lost at sea, and that it was in fact she who had taught them to avoid revealing anything. The villains were too plainly evil(and I hate just evil characters because I honestly don't believe in such simplicity). The main themes of the book are the fear of witches – usually ordinary women who have been accused by people with an axe to grind – and the dominant power of men over women at that time. Shortly after her arrival, Zigri Sigvaldsdatter is thrown into the witches’ hole in the prison courtyard, along with two others, including Zigri’s cousin.
She had partied so that she barely had time to get home to her bed before it was time to get up for church on Christmas morning. In the small fishing village of Ekkerøy on Norway’s Varanger Peninsula in 1662, women must be careful about what they say and do at a time when drinking alcohol, having ‘a sharp tongue’ and even dancing can lead to accusations of witchcraft. He had put a ham in the water and it was cooked immediately, and told her that she too would boil in the water as a reward if she served him. Interestingly, on 25 June 1663, the last accused witches, Magdalene from Andersby, Ragnhild Endresdatter and Gertrude Siversdatter, along with her daughter Kirsten Sørensdatter, were brought from the witches-hole.
But perhaps this installation is better explained by a Norweigan American visitor, who said, “On a windswept promontory, its jagged shoreline splintered by the crashing waves, over a picket fence of the local cemetery, you see Zumthor’s creation in two distinct buildings. Following the main text in ‘On Fact and Fiction’, Anya Bergman shares details of the events on Vardø during 1662-3 and commemorates the names of the twenty women who died during those years as well as those who were acquitted. On 2 September 1662, Dorthe Lauritzdotter [12] [8] [13] was brought in for questioning at the Vardøhus fortress.
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