Witches
Original title: Häxor
By: Cecilia Düringer & Pompe Hedengren (art and photos)
Original publisher: Bonnier Fakta, Spring, 2025
Genre: Non-Fiction
Pages: 240

In 1668, Satan's fury is unleashed in Sweden. Suddenly, women are accused of witchcraft and communion with the devil. The capital dispatches a witchcraft commission with the authority to impose the death penalty. Verdicts begin to fall—and this becomes the spark that ignites witch hunts across the country. The Great Noise has begun. And before it fades, nearly 300 women's lives will have been extinguished.

Witches explores the history of witchcraft, the Swedish witch trials in general, and The Great Noise in particular. Through fictional photographs, the reader comes face to face with the haunting gazes of the victims, while a factual narrative unfolds alongside these spellbinding images, recounting one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Swedish history.