Swedish and European Witch Trial Divination Records
- Date of account
- Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries; regional records vary
- Location
- Northern and central European courts
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
European witch-trial records sometimes describe fortune-telling, treasure seeking, healing, love magic, scrying, or consultation with spirits, usually in depositions shaped by interrogation and legal procedure. Swedish cases, including the 1668–1676 Great Noise and related material, provide identifiable records for studying how divination was categorized as illicit magic. The lead matters comparatively because it connects popular practice with judicial construction of evidence. What practitioners actually did, and how much testimony reflects coercion, translation, or prosecutorial framing, remains uncertain.
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