Dr. Kate Lister

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · The Witch Men of Iceland · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

It does.

But things have been kicking off in Iceland for a while.

There's been some rumblings.

There was in the 16th century, so going back 100 years, there were accusations of witchcraft and people being accused of witchcraft.

But usually the punishment was just don't do it again.

That was like, even when they've been accused of black magic, if you accuse black magic in the 1500s, it would be a slap on the wrist and like, don't, that's not good.

Don't do that.

So things that they were really upset about was sexual crimes, like women were being drowned for adultery and things like that.

Then we get into the 16th century and suddenly the law changes and you start to get...

malleus maleficarum books and palbius and writing his own but they the first person who's executed for witchcraft was a guy called john ragnolvius and he was thank you and he was arrested in 1617 for raising a zombie yeah and he wasn't given a trial or anything they kept him in prison till 1625 and then he was burnt to death the icelandic people burnt them to death

This thing is, this was totally illegal.

Like none of this should have been happening in Iceland because they had a law that said all of their trials should be tried by a court in Denmark, not by local magistrates, which is what happens here.

So they're not even supposed to be doing this.

And it takes about 40 years for the King of Denmark or somebody over there to go, hang on a minute.

Don't do that.

But they're not supposed to be doing it, but they get so carried away with it.

They crack on regardless.

Yep.

So it's first guy arrested for raising zombies, 1617.

I think the last fella burnt alive was 1685.

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