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Louise Hauberg Lindgaard 🗃️✨ @lhlindgaard.bsky.social · 1d

For all Danes interested in our own witch-hunting history, I can suggest tuning in to DR2 on Monday 📺 (or Sunday for streaming)

Here, I - and other lovely people such as @witchykallestrup.bsky.social - feature in DRs new four episode documentary “Heksejagt”.

#Skystorians #hextag 🗃️

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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · 17d

The CfP is out for next year's HEX Centre for the History of Experience conference: Histories of Experience in Society: Frictions, Margins, Ruptures
8th Annual Conference,
Research Council of Finland's Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences
Tampere Uni.
events.tuni.fi/historyofexp...

Call for Papers | History of Experience | Tampere Universities

Histories of Experience in Society: Frictions, Margins, Ruptures 8th Annual Conference March 9-11, 2026 Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences Tampere Univers...

events.tuni.fi

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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · Sep 2

Looking forward to this!

Prussian-Stepping Goose @pauldlockhart.bsky.social · Sep 2

Danish friends: I’ll be yakking away in Odense on 24 September. Thanks to @witchykallestrup.bsky.social for making this possible!
#skystorians #earlymodern #danishhistory

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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · Jun 6

Great to see this is out!

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Jun 6

Really good to see this #earlymodern #hextag 😈 volume out in the world and proud to have contributed to it!

Many congratulations to the editors @mikkibrock.bsky.social @devilprof.bsky.social and David Winters!

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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · May 21

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · May 21

Albrecht Dürer's study of a little owl from 1508. Inescapably cute! Dürer was born on this day in 1471.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · May 12

I'm delighted to announce that I've just been appointed by
@cambridgeup.bsky.social to edit a brand new and exciting
Elements series, 'Elements in Folklore' (with Dr Tabitha Stanmore), which will aim to publish the latest research in folklore that's 20-30k words long! #folklore 📚

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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · May 11

We look forward to welcoming you!

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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · May 11

Of course😊!

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Prussian-Stepping Goose @pauldlockhart.bsky.social · May 9

Just finished this today. Brilliant and a great read. Kudos, @witchykallestrup.bsky.social ! #skystorians #earlymodern

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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · May 10

Thank you! I am delighted that you enjoyed it😊

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Apr 19

Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.

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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · Apr 9

Wonderful Folklore and Mythology symposium on Magic and Legend last Saturday at @harvard.edu Great talks and homage to Prof. Stephen Mitchell. #witchcraft #folklore folkmyth.fas.harvard.edu/2025-magic-a...

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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · Apr 4

Post Doc!

"Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture"

Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland

www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...

#Skystorians 🗃

IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship | IASH

www.iash.ed.ac.uk

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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · Apr 3

And with a 20% publication discount

Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · Mar 31

Today this is out on @routledgehistory.bsky.social ! If you wish to read about the Danish link to the North Berwick trials, Christian IV and the divine duty to eradicate witches in Denmark in early 17th century, go get your copy 🏃📖 #earlymodern #history #witchhunts www.routledge.com/The-Construc...

The Construction of Witchcraft in Early Modern Denmark, 1536-1617

This book examines how the experience of witchcraft developed and evolved from the Lutheran Reformation of Denmark in 1536 to the celebration of the Lutheran centennial of 1617. As well as exploring...

www.routledge.com

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Mar 9

9 Mar 1619: Queen Anne of #Denmark's body begins lying in state at Somerset House - and stays there till 13 May

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Tabitha Stanmore @magicnotwitches.bsky.social · Feb 4

There's still time to get your abstracts in for the CREMS Magic and Witchcraft conference!

Please share widely in this low-algorithm world 💌

Tabitha Stanmore @magicnotwitches.bsky.social · Jan 7

📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

The CREMS Magic and Witchcraft Conference is back for 2025! Come join us in York (24th - 25th June) to tackle the gnarly question - what is a witch?

Answers in abstract form, please - due 14th March 😊🧙‍♀️

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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · Feb 12

Ch 2 'Day of Wrath', demonstrates how an Apocalyptic ideas were disseminated through visual and oral media by Danish Lutheran reformers in the one space where everybody gathered: the parish church. Out 31 March on @routledgehistory.bsky.social

Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · Nov 24

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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · Feb 3

Anne of Denmark - a dog person, of course.

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Feb 3

Paul van Somer Anne of Denmark & a Groom Signed and dated 1617 The half-hidden groom wears Oldenburg livery. The new works by Inigo Jones at Oatlands are seen in the background.

(Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Feb 3

Paul van Somer Anne of Denmark & a Groom Signed and dated 1617 The half-hidden groom wears Oldenburg livery. The new works by Inigo Jones at Oatlands are seen in the background.

(Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)

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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · Jan 28

Horrible!

Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · Jan 28

Soon this is out on @routledgehistory.bsky.social .I argue that #witchcraft in DK was constructed through the eschatology and the ideals for good Christian people of the reformers, and the strive for the godly state of the early 17c. A godly ruler had a divine duty to eradicate witches #earlymodern

Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · Nov 24

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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · Jan 25

Tak. Fedt kuglerne har vi, de hænger i nogle store syren. Jeg må nok bare holde øje.

Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social · Jan 25

Har du et tip til at lokke halemejser til? Vi bor lige ved skov (150 m) og har set dem der i ung skov. Men jeg kan ikke lokke dem til haven.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Jan 20

He didn’t put his hand on the Bible when swearing in. Probably because that would set it on fire.

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