Fw: descent from a convicted witch

[Leo]

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Hogg" <Jas....@gOUTmail.com>
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
To: <gen-me...@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:33 AM
Subject: Re: descent from a convicted witch

>M Sjostrom <mqs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>in ripe medieval epoch, witches were sentenced to burn, and it was
>>somewhat
>>systematical in Sweden
>>
>>one of earliest documented convicts of witchcraft, was
>>Anna, who originally was mistress of a priest, but along the reformation,
>>in
>>c1530 married him. Widowed, she was convicted of witchcraft in 1568.
>
> I think you'll find that all the witch burning in Sweden was
> post-medieval, post-Reformation perpetrated by the Lutheran
> orthodoxy.
>
> --
> James
>
Dear James,
You imply that Sjostrom's message is too late for Gen-Med, but I thought
information until 1600 were part of our time span?
My only wonderment is that he has the heading "descent from a convicted
witch" but in his descent skips one generations by saying Their
granddaughter was..........who was the link overlooked?
With best wishes
Leo van de Pas,
Canberra, Australia

[WJho...@aol.com]

Speaking of descent from a convincted witch, I believe somewhere in my
youthful days in Montreal I had discovered a book on witch trials there (or at
least in Quebec "New France"). I wonder if that material has yet found it's
way onto the Web ?

I'm fairly sure one of my distant ancestors there (IIRC) was tried for
being a witch because she had "bewitched" the man she was engaged to marry. I
think she later married someone else, and she wasn't burnt.

I have to try to run through all those Montrealers and try to figure out
again who she was.

Will