So what actually was a witch's sabbath? I asked Professor Liv Helena Wilhelmsen.

The witches' gatherings can be compared to the worship of a spiritual leader, like you have in a sermon in the church.

The alleged witches are meeting the devil on a field or, for instance, on the top of a mountain to worship him.

And this Sabbath, it takes time.

different directions in different countries.

In Germany, a witch's sabbat is a terrible place.

It is all types of evils being performed there, and even they use small babies.

Saklum.

They used the water.

The water ordeal used in Finnmark, which was also circumstantial evidence.

It was God's judgment, you could see.

So a woman or a man was thrown into water or in the sea.

And if this person floated, it was thought that this person was guilty.

And the idea was that water is a sacred element that would repel evil.

So that when a person floated, the sacred water repelled this person because this person was filled with

That was the ordinary ritual, but Karin's record does not tell us whether she received it.