Если уж разговор зашёл о Швеции, в качестве информации к размышлению о уровне образования и отношении к мистике и т.п. трудно не вспомнить о событиях к. 60-х и 70-х годов 17-го (!) века. Особенно полезно ознакомится с показаниями и содержанием обвинений. Сколько там на основе таких показаний и с такими обвинениями десятков "ведьм" сожгли?
Штирийские приключения, 1867 годЪ
According to Joh. Scherr, " Deutsche Kultur-und Sittengeschichte^" 1879, the following hap-
pened in Steiermark in 1867: "The son of a peasant was suffering from a leg injury. Instead of calling in
a doctor, the father went to a ' wise-woman ' for advice. She declared the boy was bewitched, and
would not recover till the witch, whose name and
abode were given, had named the necessary remedies. The peasant went to the 'witch,' and by
brutal intimidation forced from the poor woman the recipe of a potion, the use of which, however, did not
cure the boy's sick leg. The peasant thereupon went again to the 'wise- woman,' who gave him the advice
to use force, and in the following way. He must bind the witch fast hand and foot, then tear out a tuft
of the hair of her head ; dip this in the blood coming from a deep transverse wound in the sole of the right
foot, and mix it with her excrement, and use the result as a fumigation cure for the leg. No sooner
said than punctually and earnestly done and executed; only in regard to the excrement the torturer
had to content himself with remains that were in a pot, because the poor wretch could not immediately
satisfy his desire. By a coincidence the healing of the leg-injury began after the fumigation had taken
place. At the trial of the case of the woman, who had been crippled by the cut- wound, the accused, who
was convicted, stood all the more upon the justice of his act because the cure of the leg had begun."
