1591: Marigje Arriens
December 18th, 2018 Headsman
On this date in 1591, the Dutch “witch” Marigje Arriens was burned at the stake.
A 70-year-old Schoonhoven folk healer, Arriens (English Wikipedia entry | Dutch) was accused of enspelling some little twerp and driven into the whole copulating with Satan in exchange for supernatural powers thing common to many witch trials.
A fairly well-known witch hunt victim, she’s the dedicatee of Swedish metal band Bathory‘s* “Born for Burning”.
* The band’s name of course pays tribute to a whole other historic atrocity.
On this day..
- 2009: Gerald Dube, from Cell 10 - 2017
- 1942: Six aspiring escapees from Dulag-205 - 2016
- 1946: One sex killer and four POW camp murderers - 2015
- 1939: Fifty-six Poles shot in retaliation at Bochnia - 2014
- 1894: John Cronin, by an automated gallows - 2013
- 1691: Eleven at Tyburn - 2012
- 1529: Desle la Mansenee in the Luxeuil Trial - 2011
- 1789: The Canadian Burglars - 2010
- 1609: Vicente Turixi, King of the Moriscos - 2009
- 1878: John Kehoe, king and last of the Molly Maguires - 2008
- 1838: Seven perpetrators of the Myall Creek Massacre - 2007
Entry Filed under: 16th Century,Arts and Literature,Burned,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,History,Netherlands,Public Executions,Torture,Witchcraft,Women
Tags: 1590s, 1591, december 18, marigje arriens, music, schoonhoven
