Gertrude Svensen
b. circa 1660, Sweden; d. 1669, Älfdalen, Sweden
In 1668/69, in the town of Älfdalen, Sweden, an eight-year-old girl named Gertrude Svenson was accused by a fifteen-year-old boy of stealing children for the devil. This was followed by a trial in which seventy other people were implicated. All of them were found guilty and burned at the stake.
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