ABSTRACT
The first Dutch historian to write a comprehensive book on the history of European as well as Dutch witch-trials was Jacobus Scheltema. 1 His book was published in 1828, and was given the significant and rather self-complacent subtitle: A contribution to the glory of our fatherland. With this subtitle he referred to the executions for witchcraft in the Netherlands, which commenced later, were less frequent, and ceased 60 to 100 years earlier than elsewhere. Except for the first one, Scheltema’s conclusions still hold, although later research has shown his list of Dutch witch-trials to be in need of supplementation and correction. 2
