The story of Alith Ruyters, Witch Trials Roermond 1613
For centuries, the witch hunts left scars across the world. Tens of thousands of people (mostly women, but note, also men) were accused, tortured, and executed for invented crimes. In the Netherlands, the first recorded case occurred in 1413, when a woman in Maastricht was hanged and then burned. Over the next four centuries, many more would share her fate, until the last execution in 1823.