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Dorte Jensdatter (1672–1722), was a Danish murder victim. She was burned alive by her neighbors, after being accused of
witchcraft Witchcraft traditionally means the use of magic or supernatural powers to harm others. A practitioner is a witch. In medieval and early modern Europe, where the term originated, accused witches were usually women who were believed to have us ...
. Dorte Jensdatter was unmarried and supported herself by spinning in the village Øster Grønning in
Salling Salling is a peninsula located in the north-west of the larger Jutland peninsula in Denmark. The largest city in Salling is Skive, and smaller towns and villages includes Jebjerg, Roslev and Glyngøre. The Sallingsund Bridge connects the penins ...
. She was suspected of having made two children as well as cattle sick by use of magic. After the death of a horse in 1722, the suspicions turned to open accusations. The owner of the dead horse and the mother of one of the dead children apprehended Jensdatter and arranged a private witch trial with the help of her neighbors. They judged her guilty of witchcraft and sentenced her to death. They tied her to a chair in her home and killed her by setting fire to her house. The woman who had accused her lit the fire. The murder was followed by wide publicity, and two accusers were arrested for her murder and executed. William E. Burns,
Witch Hunts in Europe and America: An Encyclopedia
' The last lynching for witchcraft in Denmark was the case of
Anna Klemens Anna Klemens (1718–1800) was a Danish murder victim and an alleged witch. She was lynched and accused of sorcery in Brigsted at Horsens in Denmark, a lynching considered to be the last witch lynching in her country and, most likely, in all Scandi ...
in 1800.


See also

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Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham ( – 4 September 1863) was the pseudonym of an unidentified elderly man who was one of the last people to be accused of witchcraft in England in the 19th century. He died after being beaten and thrown into a ri ...
, similar case in Great Britain. *
Krystyna Ceynowa Krystyna Ceynowa, also spelled as ''Cejnowa'' (died 1836), was an ethnic Polish victim of murder by lynching and an alleged witch. Accused of sorcery, she was subjected to the ordeal of water and drowned in Ceynowa (today Chałupy). She was the ...
, similar case in Poland.


References

* (Danish) * Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Brian P. Levack, Roy Porter, Bengt Ankarloo: ''Witchcraft and magic in Europe'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Jensdatter, Dorte 1672 births 1722 deaths Lynching deaths Danish murder victims People murdered in Denmark Witchcraft in Denmark People accused of witchcraft