Their Master and Admiral | EP 3

Siri was an older woman with a long reputation in this community.

She was brought before the court on the 11th of January, 1621.

The record says that she floated like a bob.

She then confessed that she had learnt witchcraft 30 years previously and that she'd often used it.

Once a man helped herself to the beer in her tankard, she shouts at him and he struck her to the ground.

So she promptly suffused him with evil and he died miserably after four days.

She then had a fight with Birgitta and swore that her arm will rot and fall off.

And it did.

and she wanted Gregor back, so she cast a spell on his wife to kill her.

But according to her confession, the curse fell instead on one of Cunningham's servants, who became feeble.

And then, once on Christmas Eve, she had headed the other witches up to Lindahorn Mountain.

And just to say, Lindahorn is near Bergen, on the west coast of Norway, from Vardu that is about a thousand miles away.

It's a very long way to go in a night.

In accordance with her own confession, the court finds that she is to be punished in fire at this state.

But Siri's confession has something new in it.

The gathering of witches or the witch's sabbath.

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

Siri was an older woman with a long reputation in this community.

She was brought before the court on the 11th of January, 1621.

The record says that she floated like a bob.

She then confessed that she had learnt witchcraft 30 years previously and that she'd often used it.

Once a man helped herself to the beer in her tankard, she shouts at him and he struck her to the ground.

So she promptly suffused him with evil and he died miserably after four days.

She then had a fight with Birgitta and swore that her arm will rot and fall off.

And it did.

and she wanted Gregor back, so she cast a spell on his wife to kill her.

But according to her confession, the curse fell instead on one of Cunningham's servants, who became feeble.

And then, once on Christmas Eve, she had headed the other witches up to Lindahorn Mountain.

And just to say, Lindahorn is near Bergen, on the west coast of Norway, from Vardu that is about a thousand miles away.

It's a very long way to go in a night.

In accordance with her own confession, the court finds that she is to be punished in fire at this state.

But Siri's confession has something new in it.

The gathering of witches or the witch's sabbath.

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