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The Great Nightmen Conspiracy: A Tale of the 18th Century's Dishonourable Underworld

The Great Nightmen Conspiracy: A Tale of the 18th Century's Dishonourable Underworld

Krogh, Tyge

Paperback

Series: Microhistories

General World HistoryScandinavian HistoryTrue Crime

ISBN10: 1032090286
ISBN13: 9781032090283
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2021
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Great Nightmen Conspiracy explores the little-known magico-religious history of eighteenth-century Denmark.

Essential tasks carried out by the nightmen, such as dealing with carcasses and assisting with executions, generated contempt from the rest of society but also led to the nightmen becoming deeply feared because of the dark and magical forces associated with their occupation. The discovery of a dead peasant at the edge of the fjord on 4 December 1734 led to the arrest of the nightmen Mikkel and Hans in the nearby market town of Kalundborg in Zealand. In court, their interrogation focused not on the suspected murder but on thefts of livestock, immorality and other provocations committed by these socially ostracised nightmen. The court case became the largest of its time, implicating nightmen across half of Zealand and exposing divisions within society. This book uses a minutely researched set of incidents centring on the Danish pariah caste of nightmen to bring to light this unknown magico-religious side of Denmark.

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