Marichgen Ariaensdr. of Schoonhoven

Marichgen Ariaensdr., a herbalist of Schoonhoven, was arrested on 4 October 1591 after a crowd gathered over a boy said to be bewitched. Court officials sentenced her on 18 December 1591.

Marichgen Ariaensdr., also written Marigje Arriens, was born around 1520 and worked as a herbalist, Wikipedia says. It counts her among the final people put to death in the Netherlands witch trials. The Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland, from the Huygens institute, says the report of her sentence is the one written source about her that survives.

The Vrouwenlexicon records that she was arrested on 4 October 1591 in front of the house of Fop Janszoon, an alderman of Schoonhoven, where a crowd had formed because she was said to have bewitched a boy. According to the sentence, she touched the boy and told him to go away, and his hair shrank as if it had been pulled out. The boy screamed. Bystanders called on her to bless him, she did so, and he looked normal again. The Vrouwenlexicon reads the crowd as the reason for her arrest.

On 18 December 1591 the seven aldermen passed sentence: strangling and burning at the stake. The Vrouwenlexicon says the sentence was carried out the same day in front of the town hall. Most of the sentence consists of her confession, which it says she made free of irons. The witchcraft charge and the confession are the court's record.