Case file · Witch trials
Køge Huskors ('house cross')
From 1608 to 1615, uncanny disturbances in a burgher's house in Køge were blamed on witchcraft; fifteen to twenty women were burned.
1608 CE · 55.46, 12.18 · status: official
The account
The case, written up as 'Køge Huskors', became one of Denmark's most notorious witch panics, coming just before Christian IV's 1617 witchcraft ordinance.