Inside Denmark’s witch hunt museum
By DW
29 October 2020 |
11:00 am
In Ribe, a medieval town in the west of Denmark, long considered the capital of witchcraft, the museum of witch hunt tells the story of persecutions that are generally forgotten in history books and belong to the collective imagination.
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