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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.
Barbara Królka (died 1664 [1] or 1670 [2]), was a Polish alleged witch. Her case was among the more famed of Polish witch trials. [citation needed] She was accused of having cast a spell upon Wacław Jeziorkowski and his family. Królka was also blamed for having caused by magic the plague which took place almost fifty years earlier in 1624.
While examining a Glencoe hunting lodge associated with a 17th century Scottish clan chief, Ankers turned her attention to a grand fireplace. There, beneath a stone slab in the hearth, she found a ...
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
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 ...
This type of practice became common throughout Poland in the 17th century, as a response to a reported vampire epidemic. ... who was also on the research team that found Zosia, said the woman's ...
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
A ceramic pot turned into a jackpot for a woman on a walk in the Kutnohorsk Region of the Czech Republic. While out on a stroll, the woman happened upon a roughly 900-year-old stash of more than ...