Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw

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a National Memorial Ceremony for Accused Witches in Sweden

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Jan 06, 2025
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A dark phtotgraphic image from the inside of a grand building. A young white woman is underlit dramatically, dwarfed by the interior. Her mouth is open in song or scream. Below her a video image of a beaufiul myserious woman is illuminated. Someone has raised their phone to take a photo and the screen is blurry in the foreground
Image from inside the Museum: Johan Sellgren

Like every European nation during the 15th-18th centuries, Sweden felt the trauma of the pyre. Between the 15th-18th centuries 400 people were executed for the crime of witchcraft. The overwhelming majority of the accused were women, and the total number of lives lost will never been known. Sweden’s story of w…

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