The Vardø Witch Trials
The Vardø Witch Trials explores Norway's deadliest witch hunt, a 70-year period above the Arctic Circle that killed 91 people, most of them women. It begins in 1619, when a Scottish sea captain arrived in an isolated coastal community, and later a belief in hidden witches took hold. Host Lisa Williams travels to remote parts of Norway and gains rare access to 17th-century court books to examine the confessions and the mystery that remains unsolved. The series contrasts this largely forgotten story with the better-known Salem witch trials.
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Introducing: The Vardø Witch Trials
Inside the Arctic witch hunt that lasted 70 years.
Everyone knows Salem. Almost nobody knows Vardø. On an island at the very top of Norway, 91 people died in the country's deadliest witch hunt, most of them women.
The Vardø Witch Trials. A historical true-crime investigation from Lisa Williams.
Launching 1 October, with new episodes weekly.
