In the year of 1634 a man and several women were put on trial in the city of Ramsele in Ångermanland in Norrland in Sweden.
It had been claimed that the women had used small animals, hares and undefined creatures to milk cattle in their neighbor's barns.
The women were pointed out by Barbro Påvelsdotter from Sandviken, who was the first to be arrested, and confirmed to have been with her to Blockula.
In 1635, the vicar, Mr Elias, complained about the economic loss he had suffered because of the witches spells, and in 1636, the executioner Håkan of Säbrå received payment for "Having burned one warlock and four witches".
Witch trials were known in Sweden before 1668, but they were few and often ended with an acquittal or a mild sentence, not execution, such as the case of Brita Pipare Stockholm in 1593.