Domen
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Domen (127 metres above sea level) is a "witch-mountain" in eastern Finnmark, Norway, located between the small fishing village Kiberg and the island of Vardø; the witch capital of Norway, where approximately 70 witch-trials found place between 1601 and 1663 - a large number, considering that there were only a couple of hundred inhabitants in the area at that time. Vardø and the hill Domen was internationally infamous as the end of the world, Ultima Thule, and the entrance to Hell was said to be somewhere around Domen or Vardø. According to folklore, the witches flew to Domen to meet the devil for sabbath. The character of Carl Barks' Magica De Spell, is according to the legend a close description of the Vardø-witch. The broomstick-flying witch came originally from the saga of Domen.
[edit] See also
- Finnmark (History)
- Kirsti Sörensdotter
- Blockula
- Vardö witch trial
