Finland differed from most of Europe in that an uncommonly large part of the accused were men, which it had in common with the witch trials in Iceland.
Preserved documentation states that 710 witch trials took place in Finland between 1520 and 1699, resulting in 115 death sentences.
[1] The typical Finnish witch trial was that of a well known cunning man accused by a private person of having harmed livestock or food by use of magic.
Witch trials were not unusual in 17th century Finland, but they very seldom led to a death sentence, and sorcery was not, by people in general, associated with the Devil.
The last Finnish witch trial took place in Turku, when the merchant's daughter Beata Pintarintytär was accused of evil magic by twenty witnesses and sentenced to death after a body search that revealed a "bag" on her body that was considered proof; the execution was repealed to prison by the Court of Appeal of Turku, and she was released from prison in 1701.