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The two trials presented in chapter 5 each represent significant differences in the construction and content of allegations of witchcraft in the two courts. In chapter 7 various kinds of allegation of witchcraft will be examined more closely. To pave the way, this chapter introduces the main categories that the allegations fell into.
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O’Neil, Mary R., ‘Magical Healing, Love Magic and the Inquisition in Late 16th Century Modena’ in Haliczer, Stephen (ed.), Inquisition and Society in Early Modern Europe (Barnes and Noble: London and Sydney 1987), p. 99.
Christenze Kruckow was, as far as we can tell from the preserved court records, the only noble woman convicted of witchcraft in Denmark. Some of the cases have been published in Jacobsen, J.C., Christenze Kruckow. En adelig Troldkvinde fra Chr. IV’s Tid (G.E.C. Gad: Copenhagen 1972);
see also Tvede-Jensen, Larsand Gert Poulsen, Aalborg under krise og højkonjunktur. Aalborgs Historie, vol. 2 (Aalborg Kommune: Aalborg 1988). Another group of cases against Mette Kongens et al., which also included explicit diabolical characteristics, took place in eastern Jutland. These cases have been treated in Johansen (1991), pp. 71ff.
Klitgaard, C., ‘Den Store Nordjyske Hekseforfølgelse’ in Fra Himmerland og Kjær Herred, 1915–1917, pp. 165ff.;
Apelone Ibsdatter might not have had the reputation for being a witch herself, but in 1604 her husband had been suspected of witchcraft, Christensen, Poul Erik and Dorthe Skadhauge, Kvinder og hekseforfølgelser i det 16.og 17. århundrede (Aalborg University 1983), p. 178;
Tvede-Jensen, Lars og Gert Poulsen, Aalborg under krise og højkonjunktur fra 1534 til 1680. Aalborgs Historie, vol. 2 (Aalborg Kommune: Aalborg 1988), p. 149.
For further discussion of significance of the concept of honour in villages, see Appel (1999), pp. 506–525; Sandmo, Erling, Voldssamfunnets undergang, Om disipli-nering av Norge på 1600-tallet (Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 1999/2002), pp. 97–149.
Numerous variations of this can be found in the court records, the most prominent being the trial against the burgher woman Maren Splids, executed in Ribe in 1641. When her husband did not manage to clear her name after she had been accused of witchcraft for the first time in 1637, this initial accusation was presented as evidence against her in the second trial. For the Ribe trials, see Kallestrup, Louise Nyholm, ‘Trolddomsforfølgelser’ in Ribe Bys Historie, vol. 2, Christensen, Søren Bitsch (ed.) (Esbjerg Kommune and Dansk Center for Byhistorie, 2010), pp. 294–305,
the case is also briefly discussed in Kallestrup, Louise Nystrop, ‘Knowing Satan from God: Demonic Possession, Witchcraft, and the Lutheran Orthodox Church in Early Modern Denmark’, Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft, vol. 6/2 (2011), pp. 177f.
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Kallestrup, L.N. (2015). Constructing an accusation of witchcraft for the court. In: Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316974_6
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