[lbo-talk] Another obscure question (on witches this time)

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 14 08:11:54 PDT 2007


Another question for all you polimaths:

When was the last person tried/executed for witchcraft in Europe? I've been trying to find this info for Russia but haven't been able to dig it up -- it must have happened, since Sholokhov describes the attempted lynching of a suspected witch "after the war with Turkey" in the first chapter of "Quiet Flows the Don."

Relatedly, when was the last European Blood Libel trial of a Jew for allegedly killing a Christian child for religious purposes? (Outside Russia, I mean. The last one here was in 1913.)

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