those accused were poor women who had a long reputation of dealing with magic, and who were accused by their neighbors. Danish Scania In 1636, Anne Pedersdatter Kasteføll was burnt at the stake in the middle of the main square in Ystad ('Ydsted'in the sources) in Scania. For a few years, Anne had peddled little bags with cloves of garlic, nails and strands of hair in exchange for happiness, good fortune and good health and a coin or two. She was very poor and would sometimes knock at people's doors and ask for a place to sleep and she would offer them a lucky charm if they said yes. This had been going on for about ten years, but recently there had been tales of bad things happening where Anne had been. Mette wife of Simon reported that her neighbours had said that Anne Pedersdatter had thrown something in front of their front door on Saint Canute's Day the year before and that Mette's little daughter had walked out the door right afterwards. Almost immediately, the little girl fell ill and remained in bed until three weeks after Easter. On the same day that the girl took to her bed, Anne had come to their home two or three times to ask how the girl was, although she didn't really know the family. Several similar accusations were brought against her from Ystad. It also turned out she had already been sentenced to exile for witchcraft in the city of Lund in 1624 but she had defied the verdict. To make it even worse, she was found to have several illegitimate children. On 16 November 1636, the Scanian County Court (Skaanninge landsting) issued the verdict that she should burn at the stake for being a 'throldquinde'. In 1678, during the Scanian War, an old "Swedish witch" was caught by the Danish snaphaner in Ystad and handed over to the Danish fortress governor Ove Ramel at Kristianstad. She was suspected of spying and using witchcraft against the Danes, but Ramel decided to hand her over to the Swedes. The end In 1686, the local courts were banned from performing executions without confirmation from the national high court. Anne Palles, who was executed in Copenhagen in 1693, has been referred to as the last person executed for sorcery in Denmark. Anne Palles was the last woman to be legally executed for sorcery in