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Updated: June 9, 2025
The North was not free, any more than the rest of the Protestant world, from this direful superstition, which ran over Europe like a pestilence in the sixteenth century. In Sweden especially, the witches and their midnight ridings to Blokulla, the black hill, gave occasion to processes as absurd and abominable as the trial of Dr. Fian and the witch-findings of Hopkins.
Perhaps there IS a very slow amelioration; but the briefest glance at the history of the Christian churches the horrible rancours and revenges of the clergy and the sects against each other in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D., the heresy-hunting crusades at Beziers and other places and the massacres of the Albigenses in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the witch-findings and burnings of the sixteenth and seventeenth, the hideous science-urged and bishop-blessed warfare of the twentieth horrors fully as great as any we can charge to the account of the Aztecs or the Babylonians must give us pause.
"I hate these rough-cast witch-findings 'tis not a matter for man's judgment, unless 'tis sworn and proven in court before the Justiciary." "Nay," joined in an old man, "what need of a Justice when God speaks? We did but thole her to the river to see if she would sink or swim.
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