Mora witch trial Mora witch trial The Mora witch trial, which took place in Mora, Sweden, in 1669, is the most internationally famous Swedish witch trial. Reports of the trial spread throughout Europe, and a provocative German illustration of the execution is considered to have had some influence on the Salem witch trials. It was the first mass execution during the great Swedish witch hunt of 1668–1676. After the trial against Märet Jonsdotter in Härjedalen in 1668, rumours began to spread throughout the country that witches abducted children to the Witches' Sabbath of Satan in Blockula. This caused an hysteria among parents and
Beni Mora from genuine Arab tunes treated with extraordinary skill, especially in the vivid "finale", in which a number of dance tunes are combined to illustrate a night scene in Biskra." Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote of "Beni Mora", "if it had been played in Paris rather than London it would have given its composer a European reputation, and played in Italy would probably have caused a riot." More recently, the critic Andrew Clements has written of the "proto-minimalist fashion" of the repeated tune in the finale. Beni Mora Beni Mora is a three-movement suite of music in E minor for large orchestra,