“…In Finnmark, a 1634 trial mentioned an alleged victim of witchcraft who lost one arm, it 'got so painful that it withered' (Hagen and Sparboe, 1998: 126-7), and a 1632 trial recorded tell-tale symptoms in a female victim: 'At the autopsy, her back and thighs were found to be as blue as the bottom of a kettle' (Hagen and Sparboe, 1998: 112-13;Willumsen, 2010: 70; see Alm, 2003a: 409).…”