The largest witch trials in Swedish history, in a single day in 1675, 71 people were killed. As Sweden did not have a separation between the Church and State, the state-employed Lutheran priests helped to spread the hysteria known as ‘stora ovasendet’, which began after the trial of Maret Jonsdotter in Dalarna, 1668.
The end result of the trial was that roughly one fifth of the women in the region were killed.
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