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The story of Katarzyna Paprocka was shown in a literary form in a book Czarownice z Pomorza i Kujaw (pol. Witches from Pomerania and Kujawy) Anna Koprowska-Głowacka. . According to the short story, the first husband of the woman was Daniel Nosowski , [9] and the court documents, which were transported to Warsaw, caused a great
Agnieszka Machówna (c. 1648 – 12 July 1681) was a Polish con artist and bigamist. Born in the peasantry , she is famous for her fraud in posing as a member of the Zborowski family . She was convicted of forgery, theft, adultery, and perjury, and was sentenced to death.
Katarzyna Weiglowa (Wajglowa) (German: Katherine Weigel; given erroneously in a Polish source of 17c. as Vogel (c.1459-1539), and known in many English sources as Catherine Vogel [a]; c. 1460 – 19 April 1539) was a Polish woman who was burned at the stake for apostasy by the Polish Inquisition.
In 2022, Polish researchers found the remains of a woman at a gravesite in the village of Pień with a sickle around her neck and a triangular padlock on her foot. According to ancient beliefs ...
The witch trials in Poland started later than in most of Europe, not beginning in earnest until the second half of the 17th century, but they also lasted longer than they did elsewhere. Despite being formally banned in 1776, the law was not evenly enforced for the next half century, even after the witch trials had ended or become a rarity in ...
Found in an unmarked cemetery in the village of Pien, the 400-year-old woman was thought to be deemed a vampire and those who buried her placed the farming tool across her throat, according to ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:17th-century Polish people. It includes Polish people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
An influential woman politician in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the reign of Augustus II the Strong, she was deeply embroiled in the Great Northern War and in Rákóczi's War for [Hungarian] Independence. She was considered the most powerful woman in the Commonwealth and was called "the uncrowned Queen of Poland". [2]