Beyond Salem: The Witch Trials in Torsåker, Sweden (virtual)
Beyond Salem: The Witch Trials in Torsåker, Sweden (virtual)
Though the Salem trials of 1692 are today one of the most famous in the Western world, they were far from the largest or deadliest. Nearly two decades before Salem, the Torsåker parish in Sweden was overtaken by a terrible witchcraft panic. In just one day in 1675, 71 people were beheaded and burned at...