Klemus Bjarnason (died 1692) was the last person to have been condemned to death for

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 ...

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. He was sentenced to death for sorcery in 1690. However, because of the law reform of 1686, which stipulated that all death sentences for witchcraft were to be confirmed by the high court of

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in Denmark,Ankarloo, Bengt & Henningsen, Gustav (red.), Skrifter. Bd 13, Häxornas Europa 1400-1700 : historiska och antropologiska studier, Nerenius & Santérus, Stockholm, 1987 he was transferred there, where he died without the sentence being performed. Thus, he was in fact not the last person to be executed for sorcery on Iceland: that was instead Sveinn Arnason in 1683.

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