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Zigzagging down a steep moss-covered slope peppered with loose stones that could easily throw them off balance and fling them onto the jagged rocks below, the group makes its way to a large cave where witches once were thought to meet and dance with the devil. "Just imagine trying to..."
Zigzagging down a steep moss-covered slope peppered with loose stones that could easily throw them off balance and fling them onto the jagged rocks below, the group makes its way to a large cave where witches once were thought to meet and dance with the devil. "Just imagine trying to do this in the dark, when the rain has made these stones slippery. No wonder witches needed broomsticks," says one of the women in the group that has gathered in the small town of Vardoe, just over 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) from the North Pole, for northern Norway's first ever witch conference. Nearly 400 years after the worst ofthe Norwegian witch trials ripped through the area, approximately 100 people have made their way to this small town at the very northern tip of the country to walk in the witches' footsteps and see what it must have been like to be accused of witchcraft at a time when such accusations meant an almost certain fiery death.
Standing at the mouth of "heksehula", or the witch cave, with icy waves crashing over the rocks below, the approximately 30 people who have braved the steep and treacherous climb down gather around a fire to hear stories of the women suspected of meeting here with Lucifer in the mid-17th century. A 12-year-old girl for instance confessed to having danced in the cave before being taken on a tourof Hell by Satan himself, and "many women in the surrounding communities lost their lives as a result" of being pointed out as having participated in the party, historian at the University of Tromsoe Rune Blix Hagen tells the group. While witch trials raged across all of Europe between the 15th and 18th centuries, the little town of Vardoe appears to have burned more than its share. In all of Europe, about 50,000 people, nearly all women, are thought to have been executed as witches. In Vardoe meanwhile, which according to Norwegian historian Randi Roenning Balsvik had a population of between 200 and 300 people in the 17th century, nearly 30 suspected witches were killed. "When we take the low population ofFinnmark. ...
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