Case file · Witch trials
Älvdalen: the 'Great Noise' begins
In 1668, shepherd girl Gertrud Svensdotter accused Märet Jonsdotter of taking children to the Devil's feast at Blåkulla, starting Sweden's great witch panic.
1668 CE · 61.23, 14.04 · status: official
The account
The panic (Det stora oväsendet) spread from Dalarna across Sweden until 1676. About 280 of the roughly 400 people executed for witchcraft in Sweden died in these eight years.
Connections in the atlas
- Malin Matsdotter and the end of the panic
- Blåkulla, the witches' mountain
- Mora witch trial
- Torsåker witch trials