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Everyone knows Salem. Almost nobody knows Vardø.
At the very edge of Europe, above the Arctic Circle, there was a
place people believed stood on the boundary between this world…
and something else. A place where the Devil could enter the
world.
In February 1692, the same month the Salem accusations began, the
last victim of the Vardø witch trials was being brought to court.
Salem was over in little more than a year. This had already been
going on for 70 years.
91 people died, most of them women, in Norway's deadliest witch
hunt.
It began in 1619, when a Scottish sea captain arrived in this
isolated community, a coast full of widows. Soon, a terrifying
belief took hold, that witches were living among them.
The mystery of their confessions has never been solved.
So, for the first time in a podcast series, I'm investigating
this untold story.
Join me as I travel to the remotest parts of Norway, to the
places where the women lived, were imprisoned and put to death.
And I've been given rare access to the 17th century witch trial
court books, with one of the few people alive who can still read
them.
Whose words were really in those confessions?
And why did they kill so many women?
A historical true-crime documentary from Lisa Williams.
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