The Wind and the Paper | EP 1

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I go to the edge of the Arctic to find out why 91 people, most of them women, died in Norway’s deadliest witch hunt, which lasted more than 70 years. Vardø is a small island town closer to Russia than to Oslo, a place long shadowed by fears of witchcraft. Who were the women who came here, and why would they come somewhere so remote, at the far end of a kingdom? And then, one Christmas Eve, 40 men row out into the polar dark. They never come back. Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vardowitchtrials/ Sound design by Craig Edmondson. Featuring Isa Maline Isene of Vardø Museum and historian Johan Morken. Research draws on the original trial records and the work of Professor Liv…