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Exporting the Devil | EP 2
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Who brought the Devil to Vardø? I follow a trail Professor Liv Helene Willumsen calls the witchcraft triangle. It runs from Germany to Scotland, through a royal wedding, storms at sea, and women who confessed to sending devils after a Danish princess's ship. In Tromsø, Liv Helene opens the surviving 17th-century court books of the Vardø witch trials for me. Written in a Gothic hand, they take us back to a coast of widows where a Scottish sea captain has just arrived as the new governor. From there, we follow the case of Karren Edisdatter, a young healer whose confession would set off the first great chain of witch trials. Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vardowitchtrials/…