Comments on: Dark Tourism in Norway

By: Jess Scott

Jess Scott — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 23:25:15 +0000

In reply to Local. Great news! Hopefully it'll get a lot of guests who want to learn about the history of the site! Thanks for sharing! :D

By: Jess Scott

Jess Scott — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 23:11:22 +0000

In reply to Paul van Dijk. That's all really interesting and useful info - thank you for sharing! :D

By: Local

Local — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 23:03:31 +0000

You can actually stay the night at the Falstad centre, as is is also a hotel. It will be bookable by common booking sites by July 2020.

By: Paul van Dijk

Paul van Dijk — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:40:04 +0000

Great to see that you’ve mentioned the Steilneset Minnested (of memorial) in your article. Visited it several times, mostly December/January(!). What you apparently omitted is that on the other side of that water, the Bussesundet, you’ll find Mount Domen that has a part in the witches legends as well (see Wikipedia for more details). Concerning your remark on the heightening of understanding of the original events: for all visitors there are “small” (100 page) guidebooks (No/En/Fr/G) at the entrance with a description of the historical background as well as the personalia of the 91 victims executed.
An amazingly extensive study, “The Witchcraft Trials”, done by Liv Helene Willumsen (Tromsø University) was published under nr. ISBN 978-82-7959-152-8. That publication contains – among other things) facsimiles of all the court records regarding the 135 persons tried for witchcraft in the Finnmark between1620 and 1692 included.