The 91 Norwegian "Witches" Sentenced to Death | After Dark
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It all started when a huge storm drowned 40 men on Christmas Eve, 1617. The people of Vardø, northern Norway, needed someone to blame.
What followed were devastating witch trials, which featured one of the highest execution rates in Europe, and implicated the town's women and the surrounding indigenous population.
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