Europe's Last Witch-Hunt
Fear and superstition fuelled witch-hunts all over Europe in the Middle Ages and caused the deaths of many innocent women. The last execution for witchcraft took place little more than 200 years ago but campaigners in Switzerland claim it may be time to clear Anna Goeldi's name.
To understand Anna Goeldi's story you need to go to where it unfolded, in the tiny Swiss canton of Glarus.
It is a long narrow valley, the mountains loom above, the villages are squeezed below into the spaces where the grey rock unwillingly makes way for earth and grass.
You get the sense, even today, that many of the world's events have passed Glarus by.
This was where Anna Goeldi arrived in 1765, looking for work as a maid. Full Story
Related: religion, wicca, pagan, spells
To understand Anna Goeldi's story you need to go to where it unfolded, in the tiny Swiss canton of Glarus.
It is a long narrow valley, the mountains loom above, the villages are squeezed below into the spaces where the grey rock unwillingly makes way for earth and grass.
You get the sense, even today, that many of the world's events have passed Glarus by.
This was where Anna Goeldi arrived in 1765, looking for work as a maid. Full Story
Related: religion, wicca, pagan, spells
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