141:, however, who wished his whole realm to be purified of witchcraft, himself issued an investigation against her in 1620. He collected evidence from several witnesses. A priest accused her of having caused the death of his wife; Peder Poulsen had seen her as one of the witches present when a witch gave birth to an ogre; and Sören Tommermand had been victim of a knife attack after Kruckow had promised him misfortune. When these testimonies had been prepared, the king allowed for the local authorities in Ålborg to continue with the case against the arrested witches and to arrest Kruckow herself.
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Kruckow was the neighbor of the priest of the church of Vor Frue Kirke, and when his wife became mentally ill in 1618, he claimed that she had been bewitched. He pointed out the fact that some of the women denounced by the witches of the 1612 witch trial had never been investigated, and demanded that
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She was the daughter of the nobleman Axel
Nielsen Kruckow (d. 1558) and Anne Mogensdatter Bielke. Her family belonged to the lower nobility. As was the custom in the Danish nobility, Christence Kruckow was sent to be raised in another noble family than her own, in order to learn how to be a lady of a
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When the witch trial had been arranged on Nakkebølle, Christence
Kruckow had left and moved back to her birth family. As a member of the nobility, it was a sensitive matter to charge her with witchcraft. Her brother Jens Kruckow defended his sister and complained to the king that the accusation was
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Kruckow was arrested and imprisoned. Kruckow admitted that she had cursed the bridal bed of Anne Bille years before, and that she had disliked the wife of the priest. Four of the other accused women were burned at the stake. The case against Kruckow was again complicated because of her
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Following the example of her cousin, Anne Bille started to consider that her own misfortune was caused by sorcery as well, and, in August 1596, she had one of the women of the Nakkebølle estate, Ousse
Lauritzes (or Åse Lauridses), charged for sorcery. This resulted in a witch trial known as the
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Between 1584 and 1596, Anne Bille bore seventeen children, who all died in infancy. This was a major misfortune for her, and there were rumours that she had killed her children herself. In 1596, Anne Bille's cousin Anne
Hardenberg (1566-1625) likewise gave birth to a dead child, and blamed her
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In 1611, rumors were circulating in the city of Ålborg of strange diseases and speaking cats and pigs in the cemetery, which resulted in a witch trial in 1612. Kruckow was not implicated in this trial, but the city continued to be tormented by witchcraft speculations in the following years.
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