peoplepill id: marigje-arriens
MA
Netherlands
1 views today
1 views this week
Marigje Arriens
Alleged 16th-century Dutch witch

Marigje Arriens

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
Alleged 16th-century Dutch witch
Gender
Female
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Marigje Arriens (c. 1520, Poederoijen, Gelderland – 18 December 1591, Schoonhoven), was an alleged Dutch witch and one of the better known victims of the witch hunt in the Netherlands.
Arriens was active in medicine. One theory is that she was accused by an old patient of having threatened to put a spell on a boy. She was judged guilty of sorcery and sentenced to be burned alive at the stake. She is often mentioned as one of the last people executed for sorcery in the Netherlands, a country where the witch hunt ended earlier than in many other European countries. One of the reasons for this misconception was that the year of her death had long been confused and believed to be 1597 instead of 1591. In reality, there were several people in the Netherlands executed for sorcery after her; the last people executed for sorcery in the Netherlands were Anna Muggen, burned at the stake in Gorinchem in 1608, and Triene Lancheldes in 1613.
The song "Born for Burning", by the Swedish black metal band Bathory, was dedicated to Arriens.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Marigje Arriens is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Marigje Arriens
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes