And I asked Rune what the officials thought they were facing.

There was fighting a kind of conspiracy led by the devil to demolish the local communities.

And it was very important to fight them.

And they have their associates in these women and a few men.

Cunningham settled in Denmark and he married there and King Christian came to his wedding.

In 1619, he was appointed the district governor for Finnmark, and he was sent by Christian IV.

He had quite a lot of experience going to the Arctic, so he was sent up to Vardø to take care of the borders, especially against Russia, but also against Sweden.

So I think all these elements could have impacted the first technological witchcraft panic in Finnmark.

I think it's very important to see that Cunningham was a very long time in Finnmark, over 30 years.

And compared to the next one, Jørgen Friis, the Danish Jørgen Friis and the Norwegian Kristoffer Orning, they was only there for a few years and they didn't do anything other than hunting down witches.

There are so many settlers from Scotland, especially in Finnmark during both the 16th and 17th century.

And many of these are in Finnmark before Cunningham.