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This history explores the lives and trials of the accused during Sweden's seventeenth-century witch hunts. It may come as a surprise that Sweden had a witch hunt and that it was a precursor to Salem's witch trials. Märit Hansdotter and Karl Karlsson lived in an age of war, religious upheaval, and general discord. Their home, Karlsgården, was the site of tremendous heartache, tragedy, love and survival. It overlooked the Ljusnan River on a pilgrimage road between Uppsala and Saint Olaf's shrine in Norway. Märit was sentenced to death, twice, for things she could not have done. Karl was sentenced to death, twice, for things he might have done. Tapping into numerous historical sources most of them unavailable in English author and historian Charlene Hanson Jordan details the customs, traditions, relationships, and lifestyles of seventeenth-century Sweden while exploring her family's history and considering the dangers of an imbalance of power between church and state that allowed the development and spreading of an extreme notion about evil.… (más)
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A special thanks to J.J:son Hanzen (1877-1955) and to Gunnar Kaller. Mr. Hanzen spent his life researching the history of Järvsö and preserving it in the many books he wrote. All of them have been important to me in writing this book, but Om Trolldom och Haxprocesser i Halsingland made the information about the trials possible.
Gunnar Kaller's painstaking research over a lifetime provivded access to the judicial records of Järvsö and many aspects of the lives of Marit and Karl. Mr. Kaller spent years transcribing and summarizing the approximately 5,000 judicial and church records of Järvsö, not an easy task because the records were in Old Swedish. Besides cheerfully answering my innumerable questions and giving me copies of his historical writing, he helped Jonas J:son Hanzen by typing Om Trolldom och haxprocesser i Halsingland from Hanzen's handwritten manuscript when the book was being readied for priming. I must thank Rune Joghans from Järvsö for recommending I contact Mr. Kaller!
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
God, for the sins of men, has struck the world with this great punishment of sudden death. By it most of the people in the land to the west of our country are dead. It is now ravaging Norway and Holland and is approching our Kingsom of Sweden. - King Magnus II of Sweden
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This history explores the lives and trials of the accused during Sweden's seventeenth-century witch hunts. It may come as a surprise that Sweden had a witch hunt and that it was a precursor to Salem's witch trials. Märit Hansdotter and Karl Karlsson lived in an age of war, religious upheaval, and general discord. Their home, Karlsgården, was the site of tremendous heartache, tragedy, love and survival. It overlooked the Ljusnan River on a pilgrimage road between Uppsala and Saint Olaf's shrine in Norway. Märit was sentenced to death, twice, for things she could not have done. Karl was sentenced to death, twice, for things he might have done. Tapping into numerous historical sources most of them unavailable in English author and historian Charlene Hanson Jordan details the customs, traditions, relationships, and lifestyles of seventeenth-century Sweden while exploring her family's history and considering the dangers of an imbalance of power between church and state that allowed the development and spreading of an extreme notion about evil.
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