[1] The witch trial started with the fits of cramp- and nervous attacks of 27-year-old Maren Christensdatter Spillemand.
The accused were arrested and put on trial, and a local court sentenced them guilty to be burned at the stake for witchcraft.
Some of the allegedly possessed women, however, admitted to Bishop Jens Bircherod that they had lied and not been afflicted by any fits.
The falsely possessed women and the local vicar were tried before a commission's court in Ålborg and sentenced to death.
Their death sentences were revoked by the high court and the monarch to imprisonment for the women, exile for the vicar and warnings to the other people involved in the witch trial.