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Published on: Tuesday 06 January 2026
Aerial view of Vardo, Norway, the fishing town at the center of the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials Timo Noko via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 On Christmas Eve in 1617, sailors in Finnmark, ...