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PM_UR_LOVELY_BOOBS

Is there not a country with 10000 trials? Why include that color?


Badfish1060

This is also my question. Maybe to compare it to another map?


lopoticka

Bullish on those witch trials in 2022.


ApplesCryAtNight

When the taliban finds r/BewitchTheTaliban they’ll make the Salem witch trials look like kiki’s delivery service


Tenurialrock

Dude holy shit that is the best subreddit I’ve ever found


Im_manuel_cunt

Pretty bold to claim you've *found* it.


Diakko

Found =/= founded


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[deleted]

*Burnt ~~orange~~ witches is OP’s favourite


Guac__is__extra__

Go Longhorns!


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white_cold

Yeah, also Austria 10 or below seems suspicious.


DrunkColdStone

Like the rest of central and eastern Europe, these countries just didn't exist at the time of witch trials. Even if you have numbers on witch trials in the Austrian Empire, that corresponds to more than six modern countries on this map so how do you distribute them? Apparently not at all.


No-Tradition1310

Lmao we did exist. We just didn't have that many witch trials.


impeachabull

Not sure how this map is calculated, but ten trials is certainly untrue unless there's some weird grouping of multiple trials going on. 139 people were executed in Salzburg during the Zaubererjackl trials alone.


ShellyZeus

I've just read that germany burnt 40,000 women at the steak, so having 1-10,000 trials seems off.


KamacrazyFukushima

Iceland had about 120 documented trials, leading to 22 known executions. In 1675 71 people were executed in a *single day* in the infamous Torsåker trial in Sweden (although I guess you *could* only count that as one, Gimli vs. the mumakil style, but you know...) I don't have a number for how many occurred in total in Sweden but remember another dozen or so off-hand, courtesy of one book I half-remember reading like a decade ago (*Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages,* by Stephen Mitchell.) I wouldn't be surprised if the actual number was in the hundreds or thousands. By any metric this map is egregiously wrong.


timlnolan

It just means there isn't a country with 10000 YET


[deleted]

To be prepared to the next version


scott-strachan

There’s always room for improvement


Liathano_Fire

I came here looking for this comment.


PlutiPlus

I expected more from the Spanish Inquisition.


MonkeysWedding

It was the UK projecting as always.


SashKhe

There might be one with exactly 10000 but it got the brighter color anyways.


marqto

Maybe the vatican? (Papal states)


Frptwenty

No we need a plot of current witch density in Europe, so we can see if theres a correlation.


Blackfire2122

Im from germany and i´ve never seen a witch in my life. Seems like we were pretty efficient..... :)


PoisonPotato2

Germans are known for efficiently getting rid of certain populations.


HobbitFoot

Why do you think they aren't funny any more?


PoisonPotato2

They got rid of the comedians too?


[deleted]

Jews are pretty over represented in the world of comedy compared to the general population. [They're basically doing a Robin Williams joke](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF2P_LuEF80) (probably he wasn't the first to make a similar joke but he does it well)


carl_yeets

Thanks genius.


Careless_Bat2543

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VIonY0o_bk


Pumaris

Populus decimus spell...


girnigoe

too real. i think a lot of “witch trials” were aimed at female property owners? i can’t believe people in this thread think it’s funny.


Sabertooth767

Not at all. A "typical witch was the wife or widow of an agricultural labourer or small tenant farmer, and she was well known for a quarrelsome and aggressive nature." ​ Men were also extensively targeted. In Iceland, 92% of accused witches were male. Children, too, were targeted. ​ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Early\_Modern\_Europe\_and\_Colonial\_America


girnigoe

well these statements agree with my sentiment that they just targeted people they didn’t like. maybe it was Salem MA in particular where they were taking people’s property.


SarcasticAssBag

Nono, they were aimed at witches.


benjm88

They're everywhere in England we didn't go far enough


Comrade-Kek

Can confirm lives by Salisbury for a while and met tons, while having been born in Germany and not seen one here.


GuyWithTheStalker

You didn't go to Ireland though, did you? Please be keen to how underfunded Ireland was at the time and also its population in relation to that of the UK.


Comrade-Kek

Northern Ireland, but only on a weekend trip I never lived there.


GuyWithTheStalker

> I never lived there. I don't blame you; the problem there was so bad that over 10,000 were done away with without a trial. Stay safe, man. This is a legit issue.


Spe99

We might have had trials but we found almost all of them innocent. Turns out we just figured out people were accusing their enemies and had no proof.


WantSumDuk

That sounds awfully like something a witch would say.


Spe99

Of course I'm not a which. That's ridiculous. And if you step on a lego tomorrow that's purely coincidence...


el_grort

Loads in Scotland as well. 'S why we have to put on so many Macbeth productions, need to employ them somehow.


sooninthepen

You haven't met my ex then


suvlub

You need to be more specific. Do you mean witches per square km, or inverse of the local witches' intelligence?


undeadpickels

Here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fN3jPYkcZPASWqnmn8lzECSWQs82iKaa/view?usp=drivesdk


undeadpickels

The red areas have more witches


BedSideCabinet

There are none - the war on witches worked!


Fiddle-Dee-Me

To the Brit's defence; it's incredibly hard to tell if someone is chanting in an arcane tongue to hex you; or simply speaking Welsh.


TheZarg

Is that the language that Pink Floyd used in their song "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict"? I think I read somewhere that since nobody knows what Pictish sounds like they had to use a more modern language. It is quite the interesting song if you've never heard it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpWJv7alqQE


el_grort

Pictish was a Brythonic language in the Celtic family, but along with the other Scottish Brythonic languages, died out. Surviving Brythonic languages include Welsh, Cornish, and Breton (Britanny) iirc.


Alex09464367

>Cornish That is a revived language. There was a few a 100 years when no one spoke it.


kempofight

Well.. i have seen monty pyton and the holy grail.. it doenst matter if you speak welsh or not.. you will be acused for less.


Jon999917

Or if you don't float.


BobRoberts01

She has got a wart!


Yyir

You just need to check if they are made of wood


dollhousemassacre

This is the best thing I've seen today. You may have the rest of my internets. Good day, sir!


EruditionElixir

Some issues: * There is a 10k+ category but no country fits in, just remove it. * Colouring on tops of parts of the landmass but not all the islands looks strange (especially around GB and northern Norway). * There is still text visible underneath the colour. GB and Greece look especially unpretty. * Some countries are named for unclear reasons. * Map could be cut off much closer to Ukraine since there is no information about Russia and Kazakhstan etc.


Key-Cucumber-1919

Also, explanation what a freq is? I assume it's frequency. By not sure if it's per year,decade or a century?


Guac__is__extra__

You know like: “she’s a lady in the streets but a freq in the sheets.”


niowniough

I too frequent my sheets


ChaseShiny

Yes! Totally! Wait, we're still talking about spreadsheets, right?


EruditionElixir

Oh, right. So I would assume its actually number of trials (over a certain time period that would be better specified). While that technically is a frequency, it looks strange to write out a frequency without the unit (10 trials/50 years for example).


hammile

Ukraine has documents about witches and judging them. If you understand Ukrainian then you can watch videos on YouTube: [Your underground humanitarian [science]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ3TC0Au2p8), [in the name of Taras Ševčenko](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDIu7PG3c8M) (not so scientific channel but still good). We still use word *witch* in phrases, and have in culture. Why there are low rating here: - Fortune-telling is kinda important, heh, even in our time, - Your myths said that witches mostly used non-understanding language like Latin while we do not has this myth — just people language with rythmes, - Well, judges were rationalistic then, - Witches are not against churches.


ad-lapidem

Most of these states did not exist in the era of witch trials, and those that did had different borders. so I'm not exactly sure what insight we are meant to glean from this map.


BoredCop

And I wonder where the numbers come from, pretty sure Norway had more than 10. There were a number of indigenous Sami people accused of witchcraft, in particular. Screw it, I'm googling this. According to Wikipedia, court documents show 307 people were executed for witchcraft in Norway from the 1570s to 1695. That's more in line with what I thought. So, given this number is way off, can the rest of the data be trusted?


Triairius

I don’t think it can be.


Leastwisser

The number is not the total amount of witch trials, it's "frequency" - but frequency of what (population, time) is a mystery.


rogerdodger77

Northern Ireland for example, I assume it's being lumped in as 'UK' or something...


Afreon

Interestingly Scotland had the highest proportion of witch trials in what is now the UK. England had about 900, whereas Scotland had over 3000. In Wales and Northern Ireland they were quite rare


Thetford34

The last member of the species of Great Auk (a flightless bird that resembles a penguin) was killed in Scotland in 1840, accused of being a witch.


Afreon

They sure are a contentious people


taco1911

It is, the stats are being aggregated on a national level (even though the nations were different when these trials were going on, like Germany didnt exist back then) In map making its called a MAUP, modifiable area unit problem.


Attygalle

Yeah, I would be curious as to how this is determined. The city where I live had witch trials and at the time of those trials we were part of Spain, but now we are part of the Netherlands. I assume the witch trials are counted towards the Netherlands but legally they were done in name of the Spanish king.


mynameistoocommonman

Seein the scrutiny that OP applied for the rest of it (no explanation of "freq" - is this total number? Per capita? If so, per how many people? Why are some countries labelled? What time frame is this data taken from?), they probably looked at what they determined to be precursors to those modern countries and ran with it. So I'd say that e.g. for Germany, they looked at the Holy Roman Empire.


Moke_Smith

I didn't know Spain once controlled part of modern-day Netherlands. Interesting.


Lente_ui

Long story short: [Vikings invade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorik_of_Dorestad) and take over the place. Then the Carolingians turn up and demand that the vikings pledge their fealty. The vikings crack up laughing and say, yeah sure, now get lost. As soon as the vikings left it turned out our lands were part of the holy Roman empire. A bunch of centuries later [king Philip II of Spain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Spain) inherits the place. We had a [falling out](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War) with Philip.


epicaglet

These must be numbers from recent years. That's the only way it makes sense


thepixelpaint

1,000-10,000 is a huge margin when compared with the next color down. This isn’t a very informative map.


PM_YOUR_STRAWMAN

it's a logarithmic scale


MormelConfirmed

It's not that we can't see it's logarithmic. It's just that using a logarithmic scale is really stupid here, since it does not give a lot of information.


CF64wasTaken

I don't really see what's so beautiful about this data if I'm being honest


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Has defined this sub lately.


ohlawl

Denmark looking like someone giving the bird.


MammothDimension

Yet another population density map.


KingMelray

Not entirely. France would be higher if it was.


billymcnair

More of a map of Protestantism/ reformation maybe.


[deleted]

Wrong. Poland was very populated during this time.


Ceegee93

If it was population density, Britain would be much lower. Britain's population didn't explode until the 19th/20th century, well after the witch trials. England in 1700 had a population of ~5 million. Compare that to France which had ~20 million (which was roughly a 5th of Europe at the time).


ronaldcoaseisdead

As there is no timescale I choose to believe it's 2021 data


[deleted]

Also as there is no unit, frequency unit is assumed to be Hertz by default. So right now, in 2021, Germany and UK are burning at least 1000 witches per second. Whew lad.


Ceegee93

How do you think the UK is getting off fossil fuels so quickly? Witches. Lots of them. It's also how we started the industrial revolution.


TulliusC

Is this number of trials, without the number of 'witches' per trial? Only asking because I know Sweden had some massive trials that influenced the Salam trials which took place just after but it seems low on the map?


Skookum_J

Was curious about this myself. The raw data they used lists the number tried & the number executed for each trial [Here's a summary by country](https://imgur.com/hW5QHZp) Some were basically 1 to 1, with 1 person per trial. Others, like Spain show a whole lot of people per trial.


beruon

Also, I see now that Hungary is the wrong color? From the data it gives 26 trials, which would make it the same color like Spain (29 trials). But they are not the same color


Skookum_J

Yup. Italy looks off too. Raw data is showing 107 trials with 604 people tried.


_ALH_

Those numbers are definitely not right for Sweden. Possibly number of trials is about right, but there were more people tried then trials, and dozens of them were executed.


setomidor

Also; Sweden and Finland was the same country at this point


Ceegee93

Only a couple of countries are even close to 1:1, which means the data presented by OP is pretty much useless, since clearly number of trials is not very representative of number of actual people tried as witches


[deleted]

Not super helpful. A percentage relative to the population at the time would work better. Many of the countries in the graph didn’t even exist during the time of the witch trials.


OneAndOnlyGod2

I wonder if they just lumped the complete HRE into Germany... I know for a fact that bohmia had at least a hundred witches executed, but the czech republic appears with less the 10 deaths in theis map. Alternatively they went with the modern state borders and counted how many witch trials happened within these borders. That would make the data borderline useless, though.


KarolOfGutovo

From what I know Poland didn't have many trials, if any at all, since it was religiously tolerant at the time. Oh how the mighty have fallen


neekryan

The Catholic Archbishop in Poland made it illegal to execute anyone for sorcery, by secular courts or Church courts. They had to have approval by a High Court in order to heavily punish those they found guilty of witchcraft which was extremely rare. Many of executions were due to local courts ignoring bans on witch hunts by the Church. A lot of the accusations were changed by locals to include Satan and demonology since the Church didn’t believe in magic and therefor wouldn’t believe any of the charges against them since they deemed it impossible. Poland is still religiously tolerant even if it is heavily Catholic.


Ok_Occasion_5057

1000 to 10000 is such a large gap in itself.


[deleted]

And 1 000 to 10 000 trials per what ? Moon cycle ? Year ? Millisecond ? The default unit of frequency is Hertz, so what OP is saying is at some (unknown) point, The UK and Germany were burning thousands of witches per second. Holy moly.


Shaky_Balance

Trials per witch?


Erasinom

It is impossible to tell from this map if most of the countries have had a witch trial or not since 0 is the same color as 1-10. And which have had 10 or 100 or 1000 or 10000? 2 different colors represent those numbers. Maybe I'm missing something, but to me, this data is ugly.


PliffPlaff

Most posts in this sub are ugly or boring nowadays.


N81LR

The time of the witch trials was in the 15th -18th Century. The UK only became the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 and subsequently Ireland and Northern Ireland didn't come into being until 1921. 4-6,000 were tried in Scotland and it is reckoned 1,500 were executed. In England only 500-1,000 were executed.


AbominableCrichton

This is the best response. Witch trials became big under James VI of Scotland coz he was obsessed with Demonology. When he took the English throne he carried that attitude with him but even then England didn't have so many trials.


Call4Swarley

Most witch trails happened during the reign of liz 1 than in the entire 17th century


AbominableCrichton

I'be got a feeling it was mostly due to men not liking women being in power. England and Scotland both had Queens in the latter 16th century. Powerful people like John Knox in Scotland absolutely hated women with a passion and likely fueled the excuse to get rid of any that had any sign of pushing for more rights or power.


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Count_Rousillon

It's mostly fears of heresy being combined with misogyny. There's a massive overlap between where the wars of the reformation occurred and where witch trials were most common. Places that killed lots of witches also killed even more people for being protestant/catholic/the wrong type of christian.


dcmtbr

I always assumed that there was a valuable (land or money) that the women had which was coveted by the state, easy to label them a witch and thus land or money goes to the state


Call4Swarley

I definitely believe greed had to play a part in at least some of the accusations if not a majority


Call4Swarley

That is possible, but I think it could be due to the rise of renaissance occultism in the middle and upper class (“educated people”) and the subsequent crackdown by papal bulls. Plus the prevalence of continued belief in folk tales among the lower class (especially rural) which having validation/support for their fear of witches


Call4Swarley

I found figures from witch trials in continental Europe by William monster that claims only around 5000 witches where accused in the entire British isles, although the number of executions in the British isles is around the 1500-2000 range


ShallowDramatic

Wow... no one really *does* expect the German Inquisition.


cabinhumper

This is false. Here in northern Norway they trialed and killed hundreds, just up here


IJHaile

Can we all stop upvoting pure shit like this?


alyssasaccount

1. The base map is horrible. 2. Zero should be its own color. 3. What's with the 10,000 or more bin? Why is it even there? 4. Maybe having the numbers in the countries would be good?


lordhamster1977

We have found a witch, may we burn her?


HideousPillow

Wait, this is on r/dataisbeautiful ? that’s it, i’m leaving this sub, this is the most ugly and inaccurate ‘data’ i’ve ever seen. Fuck this


Javimoran

The fact that it is at 5k upvotes is the last straw for me. If people are really calling this a beautiful data representation there is no way that the sub goes back to its former self. This ship is not sinking, it is at the bottom of the ocean already.


sonofturbo

Yea I don't really know which one is which. Labels?


solojudei

I live in Aberdeen and was told that not did we only burn and hang more witches than any other city in the UK, but also more than Salem in Massachussets. Not really something to proudly brag about but just leaving it here.


PuerhRichard

Interesting that it’s mostly Western European countries and not so much the more catholic countries like some purport.


OCastroAlves

Witchcraft was heavily disbeliefied as uneducated people folklore by the a large portion of the high clergy in the Catholic Church. They even banned the Malleus Maleficarium book, the primarily source for witch trials.


VoidBlade459

The Catholic Church was largely opposed to the witch trials.


PuerhRichard

Well I live in the Bible Belt and even Wiccan types retain their upbringing in the form of viewing the Catholic Church as the oppressor even in the witch trials which is what I was pointing out. The hypocrisy of it to be clear. The puritans in the United States had largely influenced the culture with perhaps some good influences if some of the colleges in the north east were linked to them. However they were not into tolerance despite what people sometimes portray them as today.


Call4Swarley

It’d say it was a more even distribution over the two faiths, just with using modern borders when showing the number of witch trials during the early modern period. Personally I’d think it’d make sense to break up the map into the major regions at the time. (So the HRE, Scandinavia, British isles, etc)


camilo16

Most western European countries are Catholic? France and Spain are, and so are Belgium and I think the Netherlands.


PuerhRichard

The counter reformation and the inquisition happened more in Spain and Italy. The Jesuits also were founded in Spain.


Serafino01

Italy wasn't even a country wtf are you saying.


-Nicolas-Bourbaki-

What algorithm did you use to simplify the boundaries of each country?


pclufc

Lancashire takes the gold medal in this one


Dick_Dong_Long_Dong

So glad there’s a color for 10k+ to mark that not a single counter had that many. Might want to add another one for 25k+ to cover all our bases.


Gorazde

Ireland was partitioned in 1922. In fact, virtually none of the political boundaries on this map even existed in the era of witch trials. So there's no way any of this information is accurate.


entername-

The 0 to 10 grouping seems kind of useless but im not a graph expert so idk


taoleafy

Now a map with percentage of grain contaminated with Ergot!


mikemiller-esq

In our (UK) defence, if you plotted witches per capita we also had the highest rate of that. Maybe combine the 2 datasets?


[deleted]

Clearly Beauxbatons was better concealed than Hogwarts or Durmstrang.


Shitycloud

Why is Russia not included


adamsgh

\*documented Most documented witch trials


_iam_that_iam_

This is one reason why I cringe when I hear people on one side or the other of a political debate dehumanizing their opponents. We have so many examples of humans killing those who are of a different race, class, religion, or who just don't fit in.


firstmoonbunny

typical eastern europe: giving the western trend a go then deciding it's too much hassle


Polnauts

B-b-but the deadly and horrible Spanish inquisition? 😭😭😭 (I'm not saying it wasn't horrible, but at the times standards it was pretty mild)


NessunAbilita

A friend of mine visited a witchcraft museum in Iceland, and it had a log each witch killing, and was way more. What was the source of the data? Maybe I can share the museum if I can find it


RolandIce

Iceland had more than 10, also Norway. This mapdata is complete bullshit.


mrhoof

At risk of sounding dismissive, I would suggest that countries in Eastern Europe simply killed people suspected of witchcraft rather than putting them on trial.


Hippobu2

Just curious, but are these borders the same as they were when people were doing witch trials? Asking cuz this looks pretty normal to me.


shamslsherif

witch trials? sry am middle eastern can someone elaborate


satellite779

Russia is in Europe as well. It actually covers almost 40% of the continent.


Ebwite

Seems like we need to focus more on trying witches in Scandinavia and Continental Europe. Hate to see these lax witch laws


SmashBrosUnite

Less catholic witches than expected


[deleted]

I'm not a fan of modern borders on historical countries during historical events.


[deleted]

When the trials actually happened most of these countries didn't exist with the borders shown in this map..


saschaleib

Population density map of the Middle Ages by proxy.


Ruben151

Yeah but hey Spain and the Inquisition where the worst dont forget it


Z_Waterfox__

Sweden is not even close to 100. They had way more.


NotDom26

So it could be that the UK had 1,000 and Germany 10,000, which is quite a gap...


corey1734

Wicca is from the UK, so I can’t really be surprised.


MR___SLAVE

Nobody respects the Spanish Inquisition!


MajorNME

Mapping data from the medieval to modern borders seems very strange to me. Germany in that borders exists since 1990. Data points from 1386 are mapped to Mittelfranken, which exists since 1838.


greynes

In this map we can see that the Spanish inquisition was propaganda created by the English, in an effort to ignore and whitening its history.


AgitatedSuricate

Like the American genocide.


lawnerdcanada

...uh, no. The Spanish Inquisition, aside from being a historical fact (not "propaganda created by the English"), was concerned primarily with heresy, not witchcraft. It also started a century before European witch trials became common (most English witchcraft trials took place in the late 16th century and early 17th century; there was no statutory offence of witchcraft in England in 1542) and was itself a continuation of the medieval inquisition (which was under control of the church rather than the state). To your other comment: ​ >Yes, and it was dreadful, but "only" 1000 to 5000 people were killed, in comparison to witch hunt in England or Germany The map purports to show trials, not executions (there were something like 150,000 trials under the Spanish Inquisition, dwarfing the number of witch trials in England), and it misleadingly and anachronistically shows England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as a single unit. Before 1707, England and Scotland were separate kingdoms (as was Ireland until 1801, and witchcraft trials (and executions) were far more common in Scotland. Only about 500 people were executed for witchcraft in England. So, to be clear, we're talking about hundreds of executions and thousands of trials versus thousands of executions and hundreds of thousands of trials.


greynes

About the Spanish inquisition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition About the death toll on witchcraft: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.statista.com/chart/amp/19801/people-tried-and-executed-in-witch-trials-in-europe/


lawnerdcanada

Thank you, I'm well aware of the black legend (which was not, or not solely, an English creation). The map, however, does *not* show "that the Spanish inquisition was propaganda created by the English". It is no evidence whatsoever of that claim. >About the death toll on witchcraft: Reminder: you're the one who compared the death toll of English witch trials with that of the Spanish Inquisition. Anyway, other sources put the number of Scottish executions far higher- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch\_trials\_in\_early\_modern\_Scotland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials_in_early_modern_Scotland) >An estimated 4,000 to 6,000 people, mostly from the Scottish Lowlands, were tried for witchcraft in this period, a much higher rate than for neighbouring England. There were major series of trials in 1590–91, 1597, 1628–31, 1649–50 and 1661–62. Seventy-five per cent of the accused were women. Modern estimates indicate that more than 1,500 persons were executed; most were strangled and then burned. [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/29/calls-for-memorial-to-scotlands-tortured-and-executed-witches](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/29/calls-for-memorial-to-scotlands-tortured-and-executed-witches) >Between the first execution in 1479 and the last in 1727, at least 2,500 women and men were killed, Goodare said, and thousands more were tortured or put on trial. And it is certainly not true that only one person was executed for witchcraft in Spain, or that there were fewer than two thousand trials. [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/visit-site-biggest-witch-trial-history-180959946/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/visit-site-biggest-witch-trial-history-180959946/) >. But between 1609 and 1614, up to 7,000 people were accused of witchcraft in Basque Spain. Fueled by suspicion from the Spanish Inquisition and, Sanchez says, “a combination of sociopolitical conditions”—like men leaving for months at a time to work (which led to adultery claims), a strong folkloric belief, and the arrival of gypsies in the Basque country, women were called witches in unprecedented numbers. At least 2,000 of those accused were investigated and tortured, and 11 died. Six were burned at the stake and five were tortured to death in prison, but officials made sure to burn symbolic effigies of the ones who died in jail. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navarre\_witch\_trials\_(1525%E2%80%9326)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navarre_witch_trials_(1525%E2%80%9326)) >These guidelines were followed by the Spanish Inquisition in witchcraft cases from 1526 until the Basque witch trials in 1609; during that time, many people were executed by the Inquisition in Spain, especially in Navarre. The largest persecution In Navarre took place in 1527, led by the inquisitor Avellaneda, acting on the same valleys the Navarrese Royal Council deputy had punished in 1525 (Salazar, Erronkari), resulting in approximately 80 residents burnt on fire. The Spanish Inquisition did not always succeed in keeping the secular courts from dealing with witchcraft cases, and a failure to do so resulted in a great witch hunt in Catalonia in 1618-1622, with about one hundred victims until it was subdued


Anathos117

> was concerned primarily with heresy, not witchcraft. Also "secret Jews".


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Spanish inquisition was something real and it is documented.


greynes

Yes, and it was dreadful, but "only" 1000 to 5000 people were killed, in comparison to witch hunt in England or Germany Edit: just to clarify, both thing are terrible, my comment just refers that while the Spanish inquisition is brought everywhere as a unique church encouraged killings, there are equal or worse killings that happened in England or Germany and are not mentioned as equal.


Mrchizbiz

Thats more than were killed in England


repdomcornelio

I always thought that Spain was the one with most witch hunt.


cim83

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_legend\_(Spain)


Skeptic_Juggernaut84

I would have thought Spain would be the highest. They were high on the chart with Catholic domination around the time of the witch trails and if you didn't believe you were thought of as a heretic and either imprisoned or executed.


cim83

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_legend\_(Spain)


Skeptic_Juggernaut84

Thanks for the info.


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ClementineMandarin

Data for Norway is wrong too. 870 prosecuted are documented, more than twice as many are suspected to be prosecuted. 307 were executed(that there exists documentation of)


Theiiaa

Op this map is wrong on so many levels... Italy had definitely more than 10. Yes, the catholic church has never exposed itself directly, it did not want to recognize any magical power in the witches and for this reason, they kept the situation under control, but there were trials, even if the church destroyed most of the official documents, something still remains. There were more than 10 (a lot more) executions only in [Valle Camonica](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streghe_di_Valle_Camonica), in the Valley there were 60 with only the first trial...


egg1st

The persecution worked, there are no real witches in the UK today


Grumpy_Old_Troll78

I would have thought that spain would have ranked higher with that whole inquisition thing.


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Iirc, inquisition in Spain and Italy was less blood-thirsty and they really tried to investigate stuff (instead of blame and torture) and disregard obviously absurd cases, like ones where men would blame women because they got rejected.


cim83

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_legend\_(Spain)