Johanna Breiding, “Liberty Enlightening the World (July 4, 1776)” (2017), gelatin silver print (all images by the author for Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — In 1782 Anna Göldi became the last European ...

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Anna Goeldi was executed for being a witch more than 220 years ago — the last witch beheaded in Europe. On Wednesday, the Swiss decided the least they could do was clear her name. Subscribe to read ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BERN, SWITZERLAND — A woman beheaded after she was accused of causing a girl to spit pins and convulse was exonerated Wednesday, more than 200 years after ...

Anna Goeldi was executed for being a witch more than 220 years ago, the last one beheaded in Europe. On Wednesday, the Swiss cleared her name. The parliament of the Swiss canton (state) of Glarus ...

Anna Goeldi, the last witch executed in Europe, has been granted a posthumous pardon, more than 200 years after she was beheaded for a young girl's death, Switzerland's domestic ATS news agency said.

MPs set to pardon 'witch' Vienna: The 18th century execution of the last European witch to be sentenced to death by a court of law has plunged Switzerland into an unlikely political debate over ...

The last witch beheaded in Europe has been exonerated more than 200 years after her death. 28 August 2008 • 1:44pm A display of instruments of torture, drawings, engravings and illustrations at the ...

Instruments of torture, engravings and illustrations are on display at the Anna Goeldi Museum in Mollis, Switzerland Credit: Photo: AP Anna Goeldi, a maid in the small alpine region of Glarus, was ...