ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a group of stories about the witches of Ribe, in south-western Denmark. One of the stories is of special interest, because so few like it are to be found among the other witchcraft cases from Jutland. The chapter discusses how is a story eventually transmitted from one place to another? In Denmark only merchants could be appointed to the city council, no artisans were electable. Thus, the city council representatives might have had a wider network of contacts to the world outside Denmark. The Danish drovers met other drovers from the Netherlands or Germany, and over a beer they probably exchanged exciting stories. Karl-Erik Frandsen points to the fact that drovers from different areas arrived at the customs at more or less the same time.
