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..
- 1953: Carl Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady
- 2009: Gerald Dube, from Cell 10
- 1942: Six aspiring escapees from Dulag-205
- 1946: One sex killer and four POW camp murderers
- 1939: Fifty-six Poles shot in retaliation at Bochnia
- 1894: John Cronin, by an automated gallows
- 1691: Eleven at Tyburn
- 1529: Desle la Mansenee in the Luxeuil Trial
- 1789: The Canadian Burglars
- 1609: Vicente Turixi, King of the Moriscos
- 1878: John Kehoe, king and last of the Molly Maguires
- 1838: Seven perpetrators of the Myall Creek Massacre