Abstract
How to get rid of a mother who beats you up? The children’s witch trial in Gniezno in 1689 In studies conducted so far into witch trials in the Polish-Lithuanian state in the sixteenth– seventeenth centuries the question of children has been virtually absent. It seems that the number of trials featuring children as active participants was small in early modern Poland. Nevertheless, such trials did take place. This is confirmed by a trial held in Gniezno in 1689. Ten-year-old Dorotka, daughter of Zofia the Publican, accused her mother of being a witch and of harming several people with the help of the devil. The girl’s testimony shows unequivocally that she was physically abused by her mother. This may have been the reason behind the accusation. The article examines the trial on the basis of sources preserved in the records of the city of Gniezno.
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