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Weekly Witch: A Seventeenth Century Polish Satire – Blame the Witches

Krzysztof Opaliński was a magnate intellectual, whose involvement in the witchcraft persecution was multifaceted. He is a figure to whom I shall return in further posts, as I describe the letters between he and his brother concerning a witchcraft case in one of his estates. However, in his Satyry, ‘Satires’, the noble heavily criticized the state…

February 26, 2016 in Weekly Witch.

The Weekly Witch – Zofia of Lękno and Barbara of Radom (Kalisz 1580)

Zofia of Lękno and Barbara of Radom were tried in 1580 and the records give a surprisingly full account of their lives prior to the case. Zofia had lived in Poznań for ten years, producing beer. However it was recorded that she had lived in disorder, lost two children and begun travelling around markets after the death of…

February 15, 2015 in Weekly Witch.

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