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Anne Bille bore seventeen children, who all died. When Anne"s cousin bore a dead child in 1596, and accused three women for having caused the death by use of sorcery and had them burned at the stake, Anne begun to think that her own misfortune was caused by sorcery as well. Åse confessed that the marital bed of Anne had been cursed at their wedding bed by Gunder Kaeldersvends, a demon, and Christenze Kruckow.
Another of the accused women, Johanne Jensens, added that Christenze had been present at a witches" sabbath at Bloksberg.
In 1611, rumors were circulating in the city of Ålborg of strange diseases and speaking cats and pigs in the cemetery. In 1619, the authorities investigated.
Christenze was then arrested. She admitted that she had cursed the bridal bed of Anne Bille years before, and that she had disliked the wife of the priest.
She was judged guilty and sentenced to death for sorcery.
The punishment for sorcery was to be burned to death. Christenze, however, was decapitated with an axe as a privilege of her noble status. She was then buried according to all appropriate ceremonials of the church, a burial not always given to executed witches.
In both Denmark and Sweden, only one such case each are known.
In Sweden, the noblewoman Kerstin Ulfsax was executed in 1585.