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Marigje Arriens
Marigje Arriens or Marichgen Ariaens (c. 1520 – 18 December 1591) was a Dutch alleged witch, long thought to be the last to be executed for sorcery in the Dutch Republic. Biography Marigje Arriens was born c. 1520, in Poederoijen. Arriens was active in medicine. There are two theories of why Arriens was accused of being a witch. One theory is that she was accused by an unsatisfied patient. The second theory is that a young boy saw Arriens practice witchcraft. The tale goes that she touched the boy's hair and that his hair shrank as a result. She was judged guilty of sorcery and sentenced to be strangled, after which her body was burned to ashes. She was long thought to be among the last people executed for sorcery in the Dutch Republic, a country where the witch hunt ended earlier than in many other European countries. One of the reasons for this misconception was that the year of her death had been believed to be 1597 instead of 1591. Even so, people in the republic were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witch
Witchcraft is the use of magic by a person called a witch. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic to inflict supernatural harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and widespread meaning. According to ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', "Witchcraft thus defined exists more in the imagination", but it "has constituted for many cultures a viable explanation of evil in the world". The belief in witches has been found throughout history in a great number of societies worldwide. Most of these societies have used protective magic or counter-magic against witchcraft, and have shunned, banished, imprisoned, physically punished or killed alleged witches. Anthropologists use the term "witchcraft" for similar beliefs about harmful occult practices in different cultures, and these societies often use the term when speaking in English. Belief in witchcraft as malevolent magic is attested from ancient Mesopotamia, and in Europe, belief in witches traces back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neeltje Andries
Neeltje Andries (1527-1603) was a wealthy Dutch timber merchant in Schiedam. She married the wealthy timber merchant Maarten Paulusz. (d. 1593). She was accused for witchcraft the first time in 1587. She was acquitted after an appeal. She was accused a second time in 1591. She questioned the charge and demanded her name be cleared by the high court. The high court allowed the charge to be made against her, but forbid any use of torture, which made it impossible to get a confession from her. Her husband died while she was imprisoned, and she managed to avoid the confiscation of his business, which she inherited. She was acquitted and cleared from all charges in 1593. After her release from prison, she took over her husband's successful timber trade. The trial against her became an important precedence case in witch trials in The Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Zaltbommel
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch People Executed For Witchcraft
Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ** Dutch people as an ethnic group () ** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship () ** Dutch language () * In specific terms, it reflects the Kingdom of the Netherlands ** Dutch Caribbean ** Netherlands Antilles Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People Ethnic groups * Pennsylvania Dutch, a group of early German immigrants to Pennsylvania Specific people * Dutch (nickname), a list of people * Johnny Dutch (born 1989), American hurdler and field athlete * Dutch Schultz (1902–1935), American mobster born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer * Dutch Mantel, ring name of American retired professional wrestler Wayne Maurice Keown (born 1949) * Dutch Savage, ring name of professional wrestler and promoter Frank Stewart (1935–2013) Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
16th-century Dutch Women
The 16th century began with the Julian calendar, Julian year 1501 (represented by the Roman numerals MDI) and ended with either the Julian or the Gregorian calendar, Gregorian year 1600 (MDC), depending on the reckoning used (the Gregorian calendar introduced a lapse of 10 days in October 1582). The Renaissance in Italy and Europe saw the emergence of important artists, authors and scientists, and led to the foundation of important subjects which include accounting and political science. Copernicus proposed the Copernican heliocentrism, heliocentric universe, which was met with strong resistance, and Tycho Brahe refuted the theory of celestial spheres through observational measurement of the SN 1572, 1572 appearance of a Milky Way supernova. These events directly challenged the long-held notion of an immutable universe supported by Ptolemy and Aristotle, and led to major revolutions in astronomy and science. Galileo Galilei became a champion of the new sciences, invented the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1591 Deaths
Events January–March * January 27 – Scottish schoolmaster John Fian becomes the first person to be executed after the North Berwick witch trials, following his conviction for the crime of witchcraft. Fian is taken to the Castlehill outside of Edinburgh and strangled after which his body is burned. Agnes Sampson is garroted the next day at Castlehill and then burned. * February 7 – Pope Gregory XIV, who had succeeded Pope Urban VII in December, appoints Cardinal Marco Antonio Colonna and six other cardinals to a commission to revise the Sixtine Vulgate Latin translation of the Bible, published in 1590 under the editorship of Pope Sixtus V, to which the College of Cardinals has taken exception. The revision of the revision, dubbed the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate, will be completed in 1592 and be the official version used by the Catholic Church until 1979. * February 25 – Poet Edmund Spenser is granted an annual pension of 50 pounds sterling by Que ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1520s Births
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Entgen Luijten
Entgen Luijten (1600-1674), was a Dutch woman who was accused of witchcraft.Zuijlen, John van, & H. Salden (1986): Kijkgids Limbricht. Uitgeverij Matrijs, Utrecht. ISBN 9070482428 She was prosecuted for witchcraft in Limbricht Limbricht (; locally spelled ) is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. Part of the municipality of Sittard-Geleen, it is about three kilometres northwest of Sittard. The village was first mentioned in 1224 as de Lumburg. The etymology is .... She was subjected to torture during interrogation in prison. She died in prison of unknown causes. She is known as the last person prosecuted for witchcraft in the territory of The Netherlands. She is the main character of the novel ''De heks van Limbricht'' (2021) by Susan Smit. A statue of Entgen Luijten, made by Ankie Vrolings-Bleilebens, was erected on 3 June 2022 on Kasteel Limbricht. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Luijten, Entgen 1674 deaths Witch trials in the Netherlands 17th-century Dutch women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aagt Germonts
Aagt Germonts (also Abbekerk woman, Abbekerker-wijf) (c. 1621–?), was a Dutch woman who was accused of witchcraft.Monika Saelemaekers, Germonts, Aagt, in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. URL: https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Germonts [13/01/2014] Her father was Germont Jakobszoon, and her mother was Griet Dirix. In 1644, Aagt married a farmer, Claas Nijszoon, and they resided at De Weere in Abbekerk district. She had three stillborn children, and when the foetuses were buried without anyone having seen them, she was suspected of witchcraft, or for having murdered them, and was prosecuted. When the graves of her dead children were exhumed by the court, the bodies were found to be dolls. She was sentenced to death for sorcery, but the death sentenced was commuted to pillorying, holding the three dolls in her hands. The case against her attracted a lot of attention: witch trials were uncommon in the Netherlands, where no person had been execute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mechteld Ten Ham
Mechteld ten Ham (c. 1525 – 25 July 1605) was an alleged Dutch witch in the city of 's-Heerenberg in the Dutch Republic. Background The witch trial which condemned ten Ham took place during a period of hardship for the city, which had suffered under plundering from Spanish troops and from the plague (disease), plague when the witch hysteria spread. People wanted someone they could blame, and ten Ham was a person with different habits and a different personality. She made predictions about the future and about people's health. Trial Ten Ham herself demanded to be put on trial; it was a custom to try an alleged witch by certain "ordeals", and ten Ham was convinced that the trial would prove that she was innocent. One was the ordeal of weight. Another was the ordeal of water. The ordeal of weight was often easy to pass. She wrote to a known critic of witch trials, and thus refused to go through the ordeal of weight. When she was put on trial, however, her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Republic
The United Provinces of the Netherlands, commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795. It was a predecessor state of the present-day Netherlands and the first independent Dutch people, Dutch nation state. The republic was established after seven Dutch provinces in the Spanish Netherlands Dutch Revolt, revolted against Spanish Empire, Spanish rule, forming a mutual alliance against Spain in 1579 (the Union of Utrecht) and declaring their independence in 1581 (the Act of Abjuration). The seven provinces it comprised were Lordship of Groningen, Groningen (present-day Groningen (province), Groningen), Lordship of Frisia, Frisia (present-day Friesland), Lordship of Overijssel, Overijssel (present-day Overijssel), Duchy of Guelders, Guelders (present-day Gelderland), lordship of Utrecht, Utrecht (present-day Utrecht (province), Utrecht), county of Holland, Holland (present-day North Holla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
