Ramsele witch trial
Ramsele witch trial is the only known Swedish mass-execution of witches before the great witch-mania of 1668-1676.
In the year of 1634 a man and a coupple of women where put on trial in the city of Ramsele in Ångermanland in Norrland in Sweden. This was during a period of starvation, and they where accused of having stealed milk from their neighbours.
The man was said to hawe stabbed av knife in a wall and during "Terrible prays" milked the wall trough the knife. The women had used little animals, hares and undefiend creatures to milk cattle in their negihbors barnes.
Unfortunatly, few records exist about this trial, but in 1636, the excecutioner Håkan of Säbrå recieved payment for "Having burned one warlock and four witches".
The real wich-hunt came to Sweden late, and di'dnt broke out untill 1668; it then reached its peak with the Torsåker witch trials. Witch tirals are known in Sweden before 1668, but they are few and often ended with an acquittel or a mild sentence, not execution, such as the case of Stockholm 1593; this is the only exampel of a "mass trial" of sorcery in Sweden before the great witch hunt in the 1670s.
See also
Source
- Alf Åberg, "Häxorna", (The Witches).